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From Shanghai. People’s everyday philosophies.

Shanghai moves faster than memory allows. What stood here yesterday becomes a construction site tomorrow, and the everyday philosophies that shaped neighborhood life disappear with the buildings that housed them.

This project documents the city's side streets before urban renewal erases them completely. Through photography, I capture the textures of ordinary life—laundry drying before 1930s gates, cyclists navigating demolition zones, steam rising from makeshift kitchens in informal settlements. These are the spaces where Shanghainese actually live, improvise, and persist. Each photograph asks: What philosophies emerge when home is temporary? How do people build community in spaces marked for erasure?

This is ethnography at street level, documenting the intimate scale of a city that's rapidly outgrowing its own memory.