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Zhao Xiao—Tencent News

While working as a photojournalist for the daily newspaper Chongqing Morning Post in the late 2000s, Zhang Xiao would snap images of the scenes around him with the quirky, cult-classic Holga camera. These soft-focused, vignetted scenes differed from the more realistic style his paper demanded, but they capture the whimsy, nostalgia, and absurdity present in everyday life in China.

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While working as a photojournalist for the daily newspaper Chongqing Morning Post in the late 2000s, Zhang Xiao would snap images of the scenes around him with the quirky, cult-classic Holga camera. These soft-focused, vignetted scenes differed from the more realistic style his paper demanded, but they capture the whimsy, nostalgia, and absurdity present in everyday life in China.