Photographs from Beijing, 2018

This series is a visual archive of daily life on the margins — not geographically, but in terms of visibility. Captured while I was living in Beijing, these images document the working parts of the city that often go unnoticed: butcher stalls bathed in fluorescent light, aging industrial structures left to rust, and quiet moments of labor threaded through routine.

I’ve always been drawn to street and documentary photography — not to romanticize the everyday, but to record it with honesty. In a place undergoing rapid transformation, I found myself wanting to hold onto these in-between spaces — the meat stalls, the delivery drivers, the skeletal towers — before they disappear or are reshaped beyond recognition.

What connects these images is a shared texture: steel, flesh, tile, grime, light. Together, they reflect a lived-in Beijing, full of tension, rhythm, and understated beauty