About Me

My name is Songxiao Liu.

You may call me Thomas.

I am a student of the sciences.

Numbers, formulas, and laws describe the world with precision—

how matter moves, how light travels,

how time leaves its trace.

Within this order lie structure, clarity, and silence.

Yet not everything can be measured.

Some moments arrive without warning:

a breath of light,

a familiar street at an unfamiliar hour,

a feeling that resists definition

and asks only to be felt.

This is where photography begins.

What lingers is recorded.

What stirs is held.

What quietly asks to be remembered is kept.

Science offers a way to understand the world.

Photography offers a way to remain present within it.

An iPhone, a Canon EOS R, and a Ricoh GR

move through daily life as quiet companions—

tools for observing, questioning,

and listening to the spaces in between.

There is also an enduring fascination with mechanical tradition.

A Canon 7, made in 1962, paired with a lens from 1954,

continues to breathe in a digital age—

where optics meet mechanics,

and resistance becomes rhythm.

Alongside it are several 8mm film cameras

produced during the 1960s and 1970s.

Though 8mm film is no longer available,

the beauty of these machines remains—

tactile, precise,

and impossible to put down.

From light, glass, and engineering, images are born.

They remind us that art and technology

have never been separate—

only different languages

shaped to answer the same human need:

to see,

to understand,

and to remember.