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The Wing Gang is a loose and rather unruly collective of persons known to have assisted (or abetted) photographer Jimmie Wing at some time during his chequered carreer. Our head quarters is at Wing Studios, a large and lofty studio complex based in central Taipei.
Even though he somehow acquired the name Wing, he is actually an Australian of Scottish descent and from the McEwen clan - seapersons and light house keepers; original ancestor (if not Adam) being Ewen of Otter. Wing's erudite father is quick to point out that Otter in this case refers not to the animal but is a Scottish term for a spit of land that projects out into the sea. Jimmie Wing has been capturing images and toting camera equipment around the world for over 21 years, his first feat in serious photography was a trip to the Valley of the Assasins in Iran in 1976; one of his most recent, was a trip to Niigata in the north of Japan for Neoteric, a fashion/ electro music festival: http://live.ixe.com/neoteric97/
If you require technical info about any of the images in this collection such as exposure, aperture, film stock, please do not hesitate to email Jimmie and all will be revealed: winggang@winggang.com
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An extremely busy year, 1997 has seen Wing and cohorts all over Asia on assignments for the UK based pubications WDR http://www.mondiale.co.uk/wdr/ and Technologica. Starting in February with a trip to Jakarta, Indonesia to photograph and report on the top entertainment spots there, the next trip was to Bangkok with a similar brief. Following that, Wing was off to Beijing and Shanghai to investigate entertainment technology in the world's most populous country. Late June saw The Wing Gang descend upon Tokyo to introduce Technologica to an unwitting (but not unfortunate) Japanese market and to photograph one of our planet's most illustrious animators, Koji Morimoto, creator of Akira. Just before leaving Tokyo, Wing also photographed electronic music composers Susumu Yokota, Thomas Bit and Ken-Ichiro Hoshi. The very next day June 28th, Wing was shooting the Unity party in Hong Kong, the first in a series of 3 major dance music events that The Wing Gang covered during the Hong Kong handover for WDR.
July 2nd - the next day he was on a flight back to Jakarta for the grand opening of Bengkel, a monstrous night club in the shape of a pyramid. Bengkel is probably the largest venue in Asia and on August 30th The Wing Gang's Executive P.A., Ms Yeh Chia-Lin (AKA Joyce who also happens to be Wing's wife) had her first experience as a professionnal photographer when the UK's Ministry of Sound made their first appearance there. Judging by their reception from a crowd of over 6,000 it won't be MoS's last. Judging from the outstanding results of Yeh Chia-Lin's photography, it will not be her last foray into the jungle of live image capturing. Earlier in August Wing returned to Japan for the Rainbow 2000 Techno Music Festival at Mt. Fuji, having covered this event a year previously for WDR, this time he was on assignment for Technologica. His brief was to get on stage and photograph the equipment of headlined performers The Orb, a seemingly impossible task thrust upon him by Chris Everard, Technologica's chief editor, who obviously has had a previous incarnation as whipper of galley slaves. Alex Patterson, original perpetrator of The Orb, being a rather kindly chap did a last minute turn around and allowed Wing to fullfill his assignment. Three days later L.T.J. Bukem one of the UK's foremost proponents of drum n' bass ripped through the ear canals of an eager Japanese music press at Club Yellow. Of course The Wing Gang had pole position and managed to pop strobes into Bukem's face for the entire 2 hours of his set with MC Conrad. For Wing's images and story of this and other drum n' bass adventures in Asia, please go to Musicscape: http://www.musicscape.com/docs/Reviews.html Since returning to Taipei, The Wing Gang have been working on a series of CD covers and posters for up and coming new talents in the music industry.
Perfectly located in the centre of Asia for all your professional image requirements. When you require the services of The Wing Gang, please do not hesitate to email us for a free estimate or any other information: Phone us at + 886 - 2 - 2568 2177 or fax + 886 - 2 - 2571 0269
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