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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘It made me think of decorations on a Christmas tree’: Arianna Genghini’s best phone picture

Photograph of New Regent cafe in San Francisco's Chinatown and the floors above it where a lady is hanging up washing on a balcony
Chinatown, 2022, shot on iPhone XR. Photograph: Arianna Genghini

Arianna Genghini’s first stop on her family road trip through four US states was San Francisco. While they went on to travel through Utah, Nevada and Arizona in a rented minivan, it was the California city’s expansive Chinatown that captured the Italian photographer’s eye most powerfully.

“I was exploring with my sister Sofia, and we spotted the Dragon Gate at the entrance to the district. It’s one of the largest Chinese communities outside China, just like a little city inside a bigger one. Stepping inside, I fell in love,” she says.

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