During her time in north east China, Wiktoria Wojciechowska photographed intrepid, rain drenched cyclists as they fleetingly passed her by during the typhoon season. Although in China she had found an unexpected sense of home, she also found it eternally difficult to connect with people. Influenced by the words of the Polish novelist Wiesław Myśliwski, she set out to capture a physical reference to the human faces that sped past her, using a flash on her camera.

The result is a collection initially exciting, vibrant and seemingly playful, but in fact a melancholic metaphor for a wistful sense of place. The work exists as a typological document and, as she describes it, a gathering of faces for memory, building a new family album to remember the people she never knew.

“There are infinitely many of these faces I carry inside myself. Conceived in short flashes. I don't know whose, where, or when. I know nothing about them. But they live in me.” — Wiesław Myśliwski, A Treatise on Shelling Beans, 2006