Summer ’25, Hamburg
2025
Who is She? What is Macau?
2019-2020
In the summer of 2019, I returned to Macau from Beijing. I took some analog photos yet not finished my film.
After returning to Macau, I went on a solo trip and travelled to Brazil, the UK, and Germany. When I returned to Macau again, the outbreak of the epidemic started. I decided to shoot the analog roll again.
Using a double-exposure technique, the photos showed views of Macau before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Overlapping the photos caused the visuals to be chaotic and distracting.
I sought recognition in these random and accidental images, but I kept having questions: who were those people? What was my hometown?
After returning to Macau, I went on a solo trip and travelled to Brazil, the UK, and Germany. When I returned to Macau again, the outbreak of the epidemic started. I decided to shoot the analog roll again.
Using a double-exposure technique, the photos showed views of Macau before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Overlapping the photos caused the visuals to be chaotic and distracting.
I sought recognition in these random and accidental images, but I kept having questions: who were those people? What was my hometown?
Rebuilding Homes in Nepal
2018
During my photojournalism internship with VIN, I worked primarily on the community project Rebuilding Family Homes in Jitpurphedi After the 2015 Earthquake. I visited 12 local Nepalese households in Jitpurphedi, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, documenting families who had rebuilt their homes with VIN’s support. My work focused on conducting interviews and capturing daily life through photography and video, alongside covering various events and activities organized by VIN.
National Student Physical Fitness Test and Absolute Power
2017
Universities in China require students to finish the national student physical fitness test every year. In 2017, I volunteered to assist with this annual mission. While working on the tests, I took some pictures of the students. The students were photographed during their height evaluations as an experiment.
However, none of them resisted or doubted the camera in front of them. I wondered why we in China are so used to public cameras, monitorship and surveillance. I see it as domesticated by authoritarianism. I told people to stand and gave them instructions. I was a staff member, so I had the power, and no one resisted. The same situations are happening in China every day; the gate guards think they have authority, and abuse their power.
This reminds me a lot of a SS concentration camp guard in post-WWII Germany. When someone “ordinary” is empowered as a part of the authority, this ordinary person starts to feel a sense of duty to serve the party they belong to. In a daily context, people are so easy to fall into a pitfall to follow what the guard told them, and we have to ask if they have permission, or if it is outside their jurisdiction. Education of knowing our own rights is neccessary and when we have power, be sure we’re aware of it and be conscious of our decisions.
Marine Waste from Coloane
2021
This photo selection is part of the Marine Waste Puppet Exhibition at Macao City Fringe Festival. We went to beach cleanups multiple times across 6 months. And I recorded the process with images and films. These photos showcase the marine waste we collected before it turned into puppets in the show. By analyzing the marine waste we found, we can know more about the history of the place. For example, we found some opium boxes.