Give and take At the end of the 1980s, Chang began traveling around the island to visit long-forgotten photographers of earlier eras or their offspring. He also began compiling photographs for books about contemporary photographers and the history of photography in Taiwan.
彼此互換，在每一個交會中八○年代末期開始，張照堂全省走透透，一一拜訪那些幾乎被遺忘的早期攝影家或其後代，同時也針對台灣當代攝影家整理編輯出許多專書，為台灣整個攝影藝術史辛苦地作了保存與介紹。