Percy

Percy

Urban Jurassic

A small dinosaur sculpture rising between tall city buildings in black and white, film photography by Percy Lin 2015

June 2015 · Film Photography · Taipei, Taiwan After returning to Taiwan from Canada, the first thing I searched for wasn’t food, friends, or even home. It was a film lab. In the digital age, finding a place that still…

LOVE, we found.

Two small red heart-shaped decorations hanging from a tree branch outdoors, with soft sunlight and a blurred city background.

2015 — Toronto, CanadaSLR Photography It was the middle of summer. Toronto was warm and bright, the kind of afternoon where the light feels almost too generous. The trees were full, branches stretching wide, leaves moving softly in the wind.…

PP Journey

Seventeen hand-drawn colored marker illustrations forming a visual diary about love, memory, and healing — Colored marker illustration by Percy Lin 2014

October 2014 · Colored Marker Illustration · Bangkok, Thailand PP Journey began without a plan. I didn’t wake up that morning thinking I was going to create a series.There was no concept, no storyboard, no intention to “make art.” All…

Between Holding On and Letting Go

Street scene with a headless mannequin wearing a red dress and an elderly man walking away on a sidewalk in Bangkok, expired film tones, film photography by Percy Lin 2014

2014 · Film Photography / FM2 · Bangkok, Thailand Every time I look at this photograph, a quiet heaviness returns. Not sadness exactly. More like a soft ache. The kind that sits somewhere between memory and acceptance. October, 2014. Bangkok.…

Turning Together

Front bicycle wheel casting a strong shadow on cracked concrete ground in black and white, film photography by Percy Lin 2014

2014 · Film Photography · Banqiao, New Taipei City, Taiwan 2014 marked a quiet turning point in our lives. That year, Pat stepped into his fiftieth year. Fifty sounds like a simple number when you say it out loud, but…

Paper wishes

White paper fortune strips tied to strings at a temple, hanging in sunlight with a traditional building in the background.

2002 — Kyoto, JapanFilm Photography It was our first time in Kyoto. November. The air was cold but incredibly clear. The kind of cold that wakes you up instead of making you tired. We walked for a long time that…

Unplanned blue

White buildings and terraces overlooking the deep blue sea in Santorini, with a small boat leaving a wake across the water below.

May 2002 — Santorini, GreeceFilm Photography Everything looked unreal. White walls.Blue sea.Sharp sunlight. As if someone had increased the contrast of the world. It was our first long trip together — Turkey and Greece, moving from city to city with…

Where It All Began — Cats

Two tabby cats sleeping closely together on a blanket, their faces touching gently in warm indoor light — film photography by Percy Lin 2000

2000 · Film Photography · Banqiao, Taipei County, Taiwan Before the cats,there was just the apartment. A bed.Two computers.A single sofa.Some IKEA tables and desks.The bare minimum we slowly carried home, piece by piece. We didn’t adopt them right away.…