‘MISTED ESSENCE’ is the first photo book of Taiwan photographer and artist Robert ChangChien, collecting his previous works as well as new series, and try to create mysterious poetry in time and space by hiding semiology and metaphor behind each photo and design. Robert majored architecture in graduated school, thus he learned engineering, design and art as an interdisciplinary creator; therefore, he’s devoted himself to create and represent photos of sense of film and story by using light and shadows from space as well as detailed expression of human. All the dreamy and dramatic works in his book are made from the appreciation of experience of live, and research on the essence of space. In his mind, Photography would be the aggregation of the secrets that come from memories and consideration of space-time of people. ”MISTED ESSENCE” could be also defined as the stories between reality and illusion, and Robert wanna write this concept in the emotional environment by these images.