Yi Torch Festival Documentary: An Elderly Yi Man Cupping a Flame

After the festival ends, an old man sits alone by a burnt-out bonfire, embers lighting his face from below and leaving the eye sockets black. A single-source, low-angle portrait study. Image 1 of Zhao Yifan's Yi Torch Festival set.

A god's-eye view of thousands of torches winding into a river of fire along a black ridge, with darkness covering seventy percent of the frame and an old man shielding a flame and a child looking up in the foreground. Tucks micro stories into a macro scene. Image 11 of Zhao Yifan's set.

A close-up of a large silver hoop earring whose curved surface splits firelight into a gradient band from amber to pale gold. A study in macro plus a single light source for metal texture. Image 5 of Zhao Yifan's Yi Torch Festival set.