Hi there, I’m Dora, a family photographer based in Shanghai.

I first fell in love with photography during college, when I spent weekends wandering the streets with my Ricoh and film cameras, photographing everyday life with friends. What drew me in at the time was street photography, but before long I realized that the images I cared about most were always the ones with people in them — real people in honest, unguarded moments. Having also spent time living in Germany and New Zealand, I think I’ve always been drawn to the small, quiet details of how people live and relate to one another.

Over time, that instinct naturally led me to family photography. As friends around me got married and started having children, I found myself more and more drawn to the quiet, intimate, and emotional moments within family life. What moved me most was the spontaneous love between people at home — in the way they hold each other, look at each other, and simply live alongside one another.

Over the past three years, I’ve had the chance to photograph more than 300 families. Along the way, I’ve become more and more certain that this is not only the work I love, but the work I want to keep doing for a very long time.For me, photography is not just about making beautiful images. It is about preserving emotion. I want these photographs to bring you back not only to how things looked, but to how they felt — the warmth of a hug, the tenderness in a glance, the stillness in the air. More than pictures on a wall or pages in an album, they are small fragments of your life, love, and story.

I hope to create photographs that feel like a memoir of your family — honest, tender, and deeply yours.