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queer lives (work in progress)

Directed &Cinemotographed by
CHEN XIANGYUN

breathed away

Mais les vrais voyageurs sont ceux-là seuls qui partent
Pour partir; coeurs légers, semblables aux ballons,
De leur fatalité jamais ils ne s’écartent,
Et, sans savoir pourquoi, disent toujours: Allons!

But the real travelers are only those
Who leave for leaving’s sake; hearts light as air,
They never do their destiny oppose;
Not knowing why, they always say: I dare!

Sunlight hits the wall in a shape of a window

À Paris

renjia 人家

It’s easier to take photographs as an outsider. Or is it? I am a nostalgic outsider from the inside, carrying the Southeastern Chinese DNA in me. I left my homeland and have lived in America for a decade now. The images in South of the Mountain Range are my visual survey about going home.

I ground myself between nature and the industrial landscape.
I share the isolation and loneliness with millennials with only the ground glass in between us.
I look at my subjects’ eyes, smiles, and body language for new connections.
I freeze the smell I dearly miss, an anonymous smell in Southeastern China in typhoon season.
I bring the sense of belonging back in my body to everywhere I go.

south of the wuyi mountain 岭南

) is a 5x10in accordion book, folding in and out of memories, sweet or sour, good or bad, alive or dead. It genuinely provides a resting place for the remaining complicated somehow timeless sentiments to be processed.