Selected Projects / 2017—2026

Photography

I never received formal training in photography, but my undergraduate studies in animation shaped an instinctive sensitivity to composition, rhythm, and atmosphere.

These images form an ongoing personal archive: unfinished, emotionally charged, and quietly extending an experience of life that remains partially unspoken.

Selected photography by Chandler Cai
Beijing Skies project cover
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Beijing Skies

Sunsets became brief emotional pressure valves inside a city that rarely slowed down.

Blooming project cover
02

Blooming

Fragments of memory gathered in quiet rooms and passing moments.

The Pocket Camera project cover
03

The Pocket Camera

Small observations gathered with a camera that was always close at hand.

Twilight project cover
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Twilight

Black-and-white studies and the changing light over Beijing.