Chinese image-maker Luo Yang makes intimate portraits of her country’s new and upcoming generation. This captivating photograph is taken from her series GIRLS, featuring candid snapshots of young women that are “a world away from the straight-laced image that continues to shape Western preconceptions of China”, as Louise Benson notes in her 2020 interview with Yang for Elephant. “I portray women as they are,” the photographer reveals, “and present what I’ve seen in them, this private inside of them which is strong, wild, sad, lonely, free, independent and brave.” Read the full Q&A here.
