Hanyi YinPhotographs

Twenty-eight photographs

Every frame at its own shape, nothing cropped. Choose one to see it in the sequence, or sort the sheet by each photograph’s color.

  1. A small fishing boat with one standing figure, almost lost in a band of pink fog on still blue water under a clear sky.

    01Fisherman in pink fog

  2. A foggy street corner: an ornate lamp post with a green traffic light and a lit walk signal, a yellow fire hydrant, palmettos and pale old buildings fading into mist, a wide crosswalk in the foreground.

    02Meeting Street in fog

  3. Bare branches with small red buds hang over a dark river dimpled with rain, a frosted, tree-covered hill behind.

    03Red buds, rain on the river

  4. A still river between frosted, wooded hills under a grey sky, the hills mirrored in the water. The black border of the 35mm frame is visible.

    04Frost on still water

  5. Black-and-white photograph in falling snow: a boy in a knit hat stands beside a parked car holding a hand-lettered sign reading “Sleds $20, Hand Warmers $5 for Two Pairs”, plastic sleds propped against the car.

    05Sleds, $20

  6. A row of red swing frames after an ice storm, icicles hanging from the black seats, ice-coated trees and a yellow school bus behind a fence, orange traffic cones at the left.

    06Swings after the ice storm

  7. Black-and-white flash photograph on a city sidewalk: a man in a white knit cap and long coat calls out toward the camera with one hand raised, a foam cup in the other, high-rise buildings behind.

    07Downtown, December I

  8. Black-and-white photograph of a man in a knit cap and layered jackets standing beside a large sidewalk bin, hands clasped, a bank and street banners behind him.

    08Downtown, December II

  9. Tall, flame-shaped cypress trees against a bright blue sky with white clouds, a white church steeple rising between them.

    09Cypress and steeple

  10. White crape myrtle blossoms hang across the frame in front of a white house with teal shutters and a dormer. The film’s sprocket holes and orange edge printing run down both sides.

    10Crape myrtle

  11. A white SUV parked under a flowering crape myrtle in front of pale houses with dark and light-blue shutters. Film sprocket holes and edge printing frame the picture.

    11White car, crape myrtle

  12. A vintage green Land Rover with a canvas top and a coil of rope on its bumper, parked in a narrow brick-paved alley between a white clapboard wall and a brick house with a gas lantern.

    12Land Rover in the alley

  13. White sheets blowing on a washing line in a green yard beside a white clapboard house, a grey shingled house and the open sea beyond.

    13Washing line

  14. Two white Adirondack chairs on a green lawn facing a blue-grey shingled cottage. A person in a sun hat walks toward it past a long washing line of white sheets, the sea and a rocky island behind.

    14Two chairs

  15. Inside a shop window full of fruit: bananas hanging on hooks, baskets of tomatoes, apples and oranges, a pile of lemons in front, a green-and-white striped awning outside and reversed lettering on the glass.

    15Produce window

  16. A bearded man in a cream cap, sunglasses and a striped T-shirt stands with one hand in his pocket on a grassy field, two brightly checked hot-air balloons inflating behind him.

    16Balloon field

  17. The same man raises a small camera to his eye in front of a huge rainbow-checked hot-air balloon, another balloon floating in the blue sky above.

    17The other photographer

  18. A fleet of sailboats with black, yellow and white sails racing across dark blue water beneath a clear sky, a wooded shore behind.

    18Regatta

  19. Sailboats with dark sails rounding a bright orange inflatable racing mark on choppy blue water under a deep blue sky.

    19Orange mark

  20. Black-and-white photograph of a sailor in sunglasses gripping the mast between large white sails, a dark sail logo in the lower corner.

    20Between sails

  21. Pale plumes of pampas grass bending in the wind above dark green stalks, under a blue sky full of small rippled clouds.

    21Wind in the pampas

  22. In autumn woods, a man in a grey cap and a vividly painted silk shirt, his jacket over one shoulder, looks back over his shoulder on a leaf-covered gravel lane.

    22Woods, looking back

  23. The same man walks away down the leafy lane, flinging his grey jacket out to one side.

    23Woods, walking on

  24. A man sits in a cognac leather chair in a dim music room, holding up a racket so a shaft of sunlight casts its net of shadow across his face. A window, an amplifier and a microphone behind him.

    24Sun through a racket

  25. Black-and-white photograph at night through a shop window: a woman in glasses works at an industrial sewing machine under a lamp, dress forms and a shirt on a hanger around her.

    25Night shift, through glass

  26. A close portrait of a bearded man in round wire glasses and a leather jacket, red, pink and blue neon signs streaking behind him in the dark.

    26Neon

  27. Black-and-white flash photograph of a bearded man in round glasses doubled over with laughter as a spotted cat climbs over his head and shoulders.

    27Shoulder cat

  28. A man in a painterly printed shirt holds a strip of colour film negatives up to a light, which throws a red band across his eyes against a dark wall. The black border of the 35mm frame is visible.

    28Negatives, held to the light