ANNIE LAI

My ongoing series ‘In Between’ began in 2018 when I went through personal crisis of lost of home in China. The deep feeling of insecurity towards the idea of belonging and cultural identity drove me to reach out to other young Chinese women who share similar experience and emotional struggle with me. We are at this nuanced inexplicable position that’s not outsiders, yet not assimilated enough to be fully embraced by this society. Each woman was photographed in their rented flat in London in an intimate manner, the confined physical space they inhabit is their temporary ‘homes’.