Iwai Shunji-Style Summer: Soda Bottles at an Old Corner Shop

Two people push bikes toward a patch of white light at the end of a tunnel that swallows every detail; the girl's lips part at an echo while the boy looks down at the handlebars. Strong backlit silhouettes carry an unfinished thought. Image 5 of Zhao Yifan's set; --hd is an old parameter.

Two people sit on a seawall with a soda bottle's width between them, she nudging sea foam with her shoe tip, he looking at her profile for a second before glancing away. Shows how physical distance between bodies can write psychological distance. Image 8 of Zhao Yifan's set; --hd is an old parameter.

A girl stops at the low-tide shoreline and looks back at a boy a few steps behind, having just said something the waves drowned out, with a hint of tentative hope in her eyes. Holds the image on an unfinished moment and a restrained smile rather than exaggerated expression. Image 1 of Zhao Yifan's set.