For some reason or another Luo Yang began photographing in early 2007. The work that she began to create was never envisioned as a single project or centered on a specific theme. Through the lives of a group of young women attending art school in Shenyang, Liaoning Province moments of time are rendered into visual documents with remarkable subtlety. Working in traditional photographic materials and devoid of digital manipulation, Luo Yang's photographs build on the history of the documentary genre. At the same time her work questions the foundations of inherent truth in the medium of photography. Elaborately staged scenes, casually posed situations, and common unscripted moments happen side by side. Although the photographs are presented in sequence, time is not represented as linear duration. Dates imprinted on certain works are intentionally false and their arrangement is less of a device for creating narrative structure than simply a response to the exhibition space. Collectively the works form a larger image that points to the uncertainty of youth. Luo Yang's photographs themselves cannot explain the experience of a young woman coming of age in contemporary China with any more certainty that she herself can. What undoubtedly remains is a group of photographs that are compelling for their awareness to both the aesthetic qualities of light and the intimacy of personal space.