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Night Flight

This is a photographic project about self-identity and gender-identity exploration. I research the neglected inner world of the teenage LGBTQ+ community by taking photographs of the nights and the portraits of sexual minority youth. Night flights are passenger flights that operate between nightfall and dawn when low visibility and few visual references make it easy to cause more flight illusions, which lead to crashes. However, the night flight is free and romantic for me. It is just like the process of exploring my identity. I like the blur-ness of my undefined and unlabeled body, but occasionally I get lost in loneliness.

As a sexual minority, my peers and I usually choose to conceal our identities when connecting to the world. It is a self-protective mechanism that compromises established rules. Therefore, the only way I can find my peers who hide in the shadows is by searching the clues to my surroundings. In the process of communicating with other sexual minority youth, I found that all of them are eager to be seen, accepted, and loved, but only at night can they reveal their vulnerable and real heart.