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IN BETWEEN / GENERATION 1.5
More than
one home.
Photography, memory and belonging between Italy, China and the Netherlands.
A LONG-TERM PHOTOGRAPHY & FILM PROJECT · VALENTINO HU
Leaving. Returning.
Looking again.
I was born in Florence, lived in Italy until I was six, spent the next six years in China, then moved to the Netherlands to join my parents. Each move meant starting again in another language. At home, we speak Yuhu dialect.
In Between begins with this movement between places. A street in Florence, a stone marker in Wenzhou, a conversation at home: photography gives me a way to return to what has shaped me, and to notice what has changed.
出生于佛罗伦萨，六岁去中国，十二岁来到荷兰与父母团聚。一次次重新学习语言，家里一直说着玉壶话。「In Between」从这段经历出发：离开、返回，再用相机重新看见那些塑造了我的地方。
01 / RETURNING · 回望
The stones I remember.
I grew up seeing 泰山石敢当 on street corners in Wenzhou. Years later, I photographed them again with the Nikon D3200 my father gave me. Familiar objects became a way of looking at the distance between childhood and the present.
小时候熟悉的石敢当，后来成为我镜头里的对象。父亲送的相机，把记忆与眼前的街道连接起来。
02 / MORE THAN ONE HOME · 不止一个家
Florence stays with me.
“The city where I’m from, the city where I belong.” That is how I described Florence in my photographic diary. Years later, another series carried the words “Home sweet home”. These photographs sit beside my images of China and the Netherlands: different places within the same personal story.
我曾把佛罗伦萨写作“我来自的城市、我属于的城市”。它与温州、荷兰的照片并置，构成同一个人的生活轨迹。
03 / EVERYDAY DISTANCE · 日常之间
A way of paying attention.
My archive moves from streets in China to black-and-white studies of Utrecht. Doorways, markets, journeys and small encounters form the visual notes from which this project grows.
街巷、市场、旅途和偶遇，是这个项目持续积累的视觉笔记。
04 / RITUALS & MEMORY · 仪式与记忆
What we carry
into the present.
Photographing Chinese weddings brought another part of this inquiry into focus. In my notes, I wrote about the different traditions within Chinese culture and the significance of the tea ceremony with parents. A cup passed from one pair of hands to another can hold a family’s history within an ordinary gesture.
在华人婚礼的拍摄记录里，我写到不同地域的传统，也写到向父母敬茶的时刻。一只茶杯在手与手之间传递，让文化以具体的动作留在当下。
05 / FIELD NOTES · 视觉笔记
Looking beyond
the familiar.
These city and coastal studies widen the visual notebook: Nanning’s streets and greenery, a Milan street corner, the shore in Zeeland. They sit alongside the photographs of home, recording how my attention shifts as I move between places.
南宁的街道与绿意、米兰的街角、泽兰的海岸，与关于“家”的照片并置。它们记录行走中的观察，成为长期项目继续生长的笔记。
GENERATION 1.5 · THE QUESTION CONTINUES
Belonging, in our
own words.
Generation 1.5 names the question at the heart of this project: what happens to belonging when childhood crosses languages and borders? My own story is the first chapter. As the work develops, portraits and conversations will make room for other people to describe their lives in their own words.
The work develops through returning to places, spending time with people and listening. Each future chapter will bring photographs together with the words and context of the person whose story it follows.
“1.5代”是这个项目提出问题的起点。第一章从我自己的经历开始；之后，通过回访、相处与倾听，让每个人用自己的语言讲述归属。