Independent Lens

Who is Michael Jang?

By Michael Jacobs. A co-production of Strike Anywhere LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).

After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Michael Jang sat for decades on a hidden treasure of pictures taken in his 20s - both candid celebrity shots and a down-to-earth cross-section of Chinese American family life rarely captured so playfully. Then, during the pandemic, Jang set out to share his work with the world, street guerilla-style.