Yao Yuan: 1 2 3 2 1

‘1 2 3 2 1’ is a 304-page photographic memoir of Yao Yuan, that juxtaposes images created during and after Nagakura Nami’s pregnancy and the birth of her child, across 2017-2019. In parallel with Yuan’s personal life and journeys, living and moving between Japan and China in the same period.
The book portrays multitudes of cinematic cityscapes and natural sceneries, vigorous colors and mundane daily moments, containing the coexistence of rough emotions and banal transience. It ponders on an array of subjects such as time, memories, gender, borders, identity, spirituality, nature, healing, care, reality and mystery.