Taca, a post-80 photographer, studied art in the Central Academy of Fine Arts and then transferred to another school and moved to the U.S. where he started photographing. Although living in a foreign country, he paid much attention to his hometown, reading lots of ancient Chinese books. In 2008, he read up on the Book of Odes (Shijing) for a whole year, making one-to-one correspondence between the places in the ancient book and their modern positions and drawing a map. Then he spent 4 years visiting the ancient relics referred to in the Book of Odes and recording them with camera.

Interview with Taca Sui, Musée Magazine, 2020