Moments frozen in time

Reflection

For Zhang, photography is an intimate art, which can help people open up and share their stories through visual language. His photos include a pregnant woman cradling her belly in a well-decorated nursery, an owner inside her 6-year-old store which she was about to close, a subway driver and his wife at their wedding ceremony, and a woman holding a stick of candied haws, laughing with her friends.

When the time came, Zhang hesitated before finally dialing the first number to invite all those he had photographed 10 years before to the exhibition.

"It was not only a call to the person I'd photographed, but also a call to the 10-year-ago me, who had been uncertain and confused about life. You didn't know what would happen at the other end of the line," Zhang explains.