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Chinese photographer Wen-You Cai explores funeral traditions and cross-cultural identity in Quanzhou

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New York-based photographer Wen-You Cai returns to Quanzhou to explore local funeral traditions and her own identity, shaped by a childhood across Tokyo, New York and China.

An intimate artist portrait that uses ancestral rituals to explore what home means for someone raised between cultures.

A self-described outsider from a young age, New York-based Chinese photographer Wen-You Cai observes her identity as a tapestry woven from the threads of different regions and cultures. Born in Tokyo, and raised in New Y

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