Xinxin Zhang

This editorial is inspired by the feelings of quarantine during this global emergency of COVID 19. The story is a fictional and poetic version of our lives under the threat of this pandemic, and I want to tell this story in order to express our fear of loneliness, boredom and invisible danger, as well as a sense of hope that we will walk out of our house and enjoy life again when this is all over.

“I have for the longest time wanted to make a series about 1970s Californian girls, as a response towards the photo albums of music festivals and Laurel Canyon artists. The chic and casual photos of the Rolling Stones in their house, Jimi Hendrix playing pool, Peggy Lipton in Laurel Canyon and Marianne Faithfull in “The Girl on a Motorcycle”…these retro images inspired me to pick up my camera and take my first batch of photos, and they were so different from the mainstream photographs that I’ve seen.”