Documentary: A Lone Figure Under Huge Prayer Flags at a Lake at Dusk

An old woman spins a prayer wheel in her right hand and holds prayer beads in her left, dense five-colored prayer flags overhead casting colored light spots while grassland and snow mountains spread behind. Image 3 of Zhao Yifan's Documentary set.

A traveler stands tiny at the top of a pass, under ten percent of the frame, with lake water below bluer and more saturated than the sky and prayer flags whipping in strong wind. The final form of the set's principle of compressing distance. Image 7 of Zhao Yifan's Documentary 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.