The book is presented as a photobook, edited with photos of family members, each in a separate volume, tied together with handmade locking threads.

A family of five scattered around, each working and living, the epidemic intensified the originally difficult to see each other, each other’s lives can only be through voice video single participation, do not know is always the majority, always unwilling to let the family worry, after the incident, may be spit out one or two. Mobile phone albums are a trace of life, approaching will find far, will find close again. All the photos come from the family’s mobile phone albums, not in a place of the family through the photo perception of each other’s daily life.

Published in 2023
11 cm x 15.5 cm
88 pages

Showcased as part of Jimei x Arles: Travelling Photobook Showcase at the 9th SIPF Photobook Showcase

Artist Biography:

Mai Mai was born in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province in 1993 and now lives and works in Beijing.