2018 · 35mm Film Photography / FM2 · Jinshan, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Some memories arrive quietly.
No posing.
No arrangement.
Just the world as it is.
This photograph was taken during a family trip to Jinshan Beach in northern Taiwan.
Our whole family joined a coastal cleanup organized with the USANA team. Before the work began, my sister and my nephew walked down to the water and simply stood there, watching the waves.
I stayed back and lifted the camera.
They weren’t doing anything special.
Just looking. Just breathing with the sea.
But something about the distance between them, the horizon line, and the endless blue sky felt tender and complete.
The ocean moved.
Clouds drifted.
Time slowed for a moment.
Film felt right for this day.
The grain, the colors, the slight unpredictability — they hold memory differently than digital. Softer. Warmer. More human.
When I look at this image now, I don’t only see the beach.
I remember the wind on my skin.
The smell of salt.
My family talking behind me.
And the quiet gratitude of being together, doing something small but meaningful for the land.
Sometimes love looks like this —
standing side by side, saying nothing, facing the same horizon.
— Percy Lin