Picture portraits in rural settings
China DailyA portrait of Angela Hui, who grew up in rural Wales and has lived in London for a decade. Since late January, in the entrance hall of the British Library, photo portraits have been displayed of Chinese faces in different rural British settings. While most Chinese British in the UK are based in cities, these photos taken by Jamie Lau focus on individuals of Chinese heritage who feel connected to countryside life, so as to provide a different perspective of looking at rural Britain, as well as another way of finding one's identity. "With no extended Chinese community in the area, far from feeling culturally isolated, I felt no different from everyone around me," Lau says. For Angela Hui, one of the people in Lau's portraits who grew up in a Chinese takeaway in rural Wales but has lived in London for a decade, the countryside evokes the Welsh word hiraeth that conveys a missing feeling of something irretrievably lost and a place of comfort that one always wants to return to.
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