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"Grandpa washes and irons, grandma takes care of the money" - Instagram seniors from Taiwan

2020-09-17T23:13:57.495Z


Reef Chang made his grandparents a global Instagram phenomenon by photographing them in their clothes left behind from their laundromat.


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: Mr. Chang, first of all: Why do people have their clothes cleaned but don't pick them up?

Chang

: Good question!

Most often people leave simple shirts behind, one more or less, that probably goes unnoticed.

Clothing is just too cheap these days.

With jackets, I suspect it is like this: people take them to my grandparents' homes in winter, put on a different one for the transition and postpone collection from us.

Then, when summer comes, they'll forget the jacket.

We now store almost 400 items of clothing.

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: How did you get the idea to photograph your grandparents in it?

Chang

: I didn't want to see that they were bored all the time.

They used to be very active, traveled all over the world, Germany, Australia, France.

But lately they have been crouching in front of the television after work, as if in a fog.

They also often complained of heart problems, joint pain, incompetent politicians, that sort of thing.

In addition, many of her friends have died.

I wanted to cheer her up with my idea.

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