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.
— Tina Ye
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

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.”