Passing By Beijing

“The pictures in the book,” Cai writes in the afterword, “are a selection of color photos I took between 2002 and 2022.

They bear witness to my move from northwest China to Beijing

I have been living in Beijing for more than 20 years, but it has always been a strange city to me.”

Consequently, the photographs in Passing by Beijing are very heterogeneous.
They include landscapes and cityscapes, candid and posed portraits, spontaneously observed still lives, and much more.
Ordinarily, it’s a challenge to pull together a coherent and meaningful edit from such a heterogeneous set of photographs.