Home is the song you sing together一起唱的歌，就是家

Shot on Lia's Samsung Galaxy A56 that I borrowed.

The people featured in my photo are Kellan and Lia, two of my friends who met in Sheffield. Both are queer adoptees, who do not know their birth family in China. Their shared experience led me to write about a forgotten home which is beyond reach. In the past few years, they have bonded with found family - friends who are as close as relatives. This is an important concept for queer people, since blood ties are not always supportive of us. I chose to photograph them in my house, because it captures our daily life and the sense of home we have built together.

I watched He's a Woman She's a Man (1994) with Kellan, which explores fame, self discovery and gender identity. The bond between Wing and their roommate Yu Lo, mirrored my own experience with friends who have helped me with my gender journey - Kellan among them. Wing's transformation into a male singer is very relatable to the everyday routine of transmasculine people in Sheffield. Singing is a tool to express emotions before they can be spoken in this film, and both Kellan and I have played instruments to explore our own feelings.

The Heroic Trio (1993) focuses on three action heroines who eventually come together to fight a baby stealing killer. There is a martial sister bond between Anita Mui and Michelle Yeoh, which is very similar to the one I see between Lia and Michelle, their flatmate. I found the underworld being underneath the city interesting, so I set the scene with the staircase to create the feeling we are under another world. This is also part of the queer experience, which historically had to be hidden to avoid scrutiny or was forcibly suppressed underground. (Instagram: @rooftop_posts)