Indianapolis-based artist Charles R. Yang wrote of Solitude, “This image was taken in a deserted park, Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park in Indianapolis, on a cold, dull, and snowy winter day. I have always been entranced by the blue-green tone of Edward Steichen's Flatiron photo. So, I tried to replicate some of that tone digitally in this image in an attempt to create a solitary mood.”

Charles R. Yang’s passion for photography began in his teens when his father gave him an old camera, along with a subscription to National Geographic magazine. Over the last five decades, Charles has lived and worked globally, including in Hong Kong, England, Canada, the United States, and China, always with a camera on his side. 

In 2024, this self-taught artist gave a talk, entitled Following the Winter Light in the Far East, at Aurora PhotoCenter in which he discussed his decades long exploration on socio-cultural street photography made in Northern Thailand, Northern Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Japan. In 2022, Yang’s image Solitude was featured in Aurora’s year-end Pop-Up gallery, which showcased the work of 20 Central-Indiana photographers. 

Charles R. Yang has self-published 4 photographic monographs, Shanghai: the Pre-COVID Soul of The City (2020-2017), On Reading: From Analogue To Digital, Under The Moroccan Winter Sun, and A Weekend Flâneur in Pre-COVID Shanghai (2010-2017). The first three books are in the collection of the Indianapolis Public Library. His color and monochrome prints were exhibited in a solo show at Darkroom Revelations Gallery, and he has had joint print exhibitions with Lesley Ackman at Harrison Art Center and Garfield Park Art Center in Indianapolis.