Big Pictures for a Big City

“It’s not real, but your brain says it’s real.” Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s urban panoramas are huge, intricate prints full of light, textures and a hyper-real perspective.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/big-pictures-for-a-big-city/?pagewanted=all

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao loved documentary and street photography — until an internship at Magnum Photos led him to a sobering conclusion.

“You go through their contact sheets and it strikes you,” he said. “I was never going to be better.”

But he could be bigger.