Photographer · Shanghai China
I was born and raised in Henan Province, a region marked by limited educational resources and slow development. In that environment, leaving was not an act of ambition but a shared instinct. For many children there, the future felt geographically and socially distant, and the college entrance examination became the only visible passage outward.
That exam eventually brought me to Shanghai. The shift—from a place defined by scarcity to a city shaped by speed and density—deeply altered ... See full profile for more info.
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