This series was inspired by the period when the pandemic kept me away from my second hometown. During that time, my grandfather passed away. After he passed away, my mother told me many stories about his youth as a photographer—stories that reconnected me not only with him, but also with photography itself. Through this body of work, I seek to understand this emotional connection across time and to translate longing and memory into visual form.

I revisited the places my grandfather once photographed, capturing them again on 35mm black-and-white film. The process became a dialogue across generations—an act of reconstructing memory from the fragments of a lost archive.

This series is not only about remembrance, but also about continuity: how a person’s past can continue to exist and shine even after being forgotten. I hope viewers can sense the quiet resilience and grace of that generation, and through these landscapes, imagine the world my grandfather once saw.