Pauline Mai — Photographs

Photographs.

Fragments of life, seen through my lens.

01 · 光与影

Light & Shadow

Silhouettes, hard sunlight and the quiet color of reflected light.

7 photographs

A silhouette pauses inside a sunlit concrete passage.

A walker with a cane casts a long shadow across a sunlit floor.

Sculptures stand in silhouette beside a seated visitor at a bright window.

An illuminated arcade recedes into a dark blue evening.

Silhouettes in a dark Alcatraz corridor face a bright doorway, with embedded title and footer text.

A seated visitor and stroller beneath a rainbow of light on a stone wall.

Hard sunlight casts table and chair shadows on a stone plaza beside a seated visitor.

02 · Street documentary · 街头纪实

Life, Unscripted

Unposed moments. Ordinary lives. Stories unfolding without a script.

13 photographs

A woman lifts her hair beside a man in a black-and-white candid scene.

Two men exercise in a waterfront park beside a bicycle.

A runner crosses a waterfront lawn, with a title printed on the image.

A vendor in a pink jacket tends a cart outside the Alcatraz ferry terminal.

Three people sit on a bench facing the Golden Gate Bridge.

A little girl in a blue dress holds a blue ice cream.

03

The Space Between

Lines, thresholds and the small figures who give them scale.

6 photographs

People climb an outdoor staircase beside a grassy slope.

Travelers sit in rows beneath the angular roof of an airport terminal.

A pedestrian crosses a doorway framing a city street, with a title printed on the image.

Visitors walk along a long cellhouse corridor toward a bright doorway.

A red-robed figure crosses a paved temple courtyard.

A seated saxophonist plays beneath the red underside of a bridge.

04

Signs & Surfaces

Murals, lettering and the constructed textures of the city.

4 photographs

A mural of colorful faces is seen through a vehicle window.

Construction vehicles beside the red curve of a building, seen from above.

A map assembled from license plates is displayed outside a brick building.

Diners sit beneath a pizza sign overlooking a waterfront.