Photographer Xin Ting captures ordinary and extraordinary scenes along China’s coastline
When Shantou-based photographer Xin Ting recently finished watching the 1983 Taiwan coming-of-age film The Boys from Fengkuei, his first thought was to go spend a few days by the ocean. “There is too much sea here. The sea is everywhere. Sometimes it threatened to swallow up the sky,” screenwriter Chu Tien-wen had described the horizon of the small fishing village where the film is set, where the sea provides a constant backdrop to the bickering, brawling, and small-town boredom of its three young male protagonists.
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