YUE ZHANG, Danced Through Memory (PEOPLE 2025)

They were once dance partners, close in heart though not in age. Years later, they meet again in an old manor house in Australia. One walks down the stairs, the other waits. Neither expected to see the other in a qipao, yet both chose it, just as they once did. The moment is quiet, but full. A shared history, shaped in China, now revisited far from home. This photo series reflects on friendship, memory and how culture lives on in the small choices we carry with us.

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