Documentary: A Traveler Lying Face Down on a Lakeshore Beside Their Reflection

Three travelers in crimson robes lean thirty degrees into the wind, the middle one pushing a cart of luggage as footprints vanish under snow and there is no horizon. One of the set's extreme cases of keeping the figures as small as possible in the frame. Image 5 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.

The setting sun turns the traveler into a pure black silhouette traced only by a golden rim light, the shadow stretching far across the sand and the sky shifting from burning orange to deep blue-violet. A complete example of a horizon backlit silhouette shot. Image 6 of Zhao Yifan's Documentary set.