is now a professional portrait photographer based in China, but she was once a photography student living in Paris, making barely enough money to cover her tuition and living expenses. That is perhaps why she was inspired to take this image.
After a decade learning the ropes in France, she returned to China to become an imaging product manager for Vivo, a smartphone brand. In 2020, she was working as an art director on an ad shoot. “There was a scene that took place on a bus with our brand ambassador Liu Wen, who is regarded as China’s first supermodel,” she says. “She had just finished her take and was leaving the set with the supporting models when I noticed that one girl remained seated.”
