“I left my home, Hangzhou (杭州), when I was 10 years old. Memories of my home have become a hazy fog, obscured by a sense of displacement and hyphenation. This year, I returned to Hangzhou. Surrounded by family, nostalgia called out to me from stationary objects, places, lights.”
“This series of black and white photography was taken in my hometown. Everything was the same, everything was different. Both familiar and unfamiliar.”
Tina Ye is a fourth-year Human Biology student at the University of Toronto. Follow Tina on Instagram: @vaureos_photo. “As a self-taught photographer, my first camera was the flip phone I got for my 13th birthday. I like to explore the contrast between light and dark, finding meaning in shapes half-veiled in shadows and its juxtaposition against light.”