NOTES FROM AN AFTERNOON

Personal Project · Chongqing, China · Editorial Portrait

Photographer LEI

The light falls sideways through the old lanes, and Chen just keeps walking — pausing on a staircase, lingering by a doorway, leaning against a balcony rail, sitting down wherever the curb allows. There's no plot to follow, and none is needed. What the camera catches are the offhand moments: a glance back, a stretch of quiet, a pose held without really trying. Black against leopard print, old brick against old stone — it all feels like it belongs to the street already.

老街的光斜斜地落着，陈没有目的地走走停停——楼梯歇一脚，店门口张望一下，阳台边靠一会儿，街边随手坐下。没有安排好的情节，也没必要有。镜头记下的都是些顺手的瞬间：一次回头，一段沉默，一个不经意的姿势。黑色长裙配着豹纹，在老墙老巷之间，倒显得很自然，像是这条街本来的样子。