Xue Xiaohong, an ordinary housewife from Nanjing, started taking photos six years ago to make up for her emptiness happening after her daughter went to college, which opened the floodgates. She quit the job and put her heart into street photography in 2014.

She said, she likes the real and ordinary of photography and always takes her camera and presses the shutter once having the feeling. Happiness, joy, hope, helplessness, sadness, various emotions in her pictures show the real, commonplace lives. Ms Xue likes walking casually in the street, watching and photographing easily, for no purpose.

Below are some photos taken by her in Nanjing in 2017.

The relaxing people in the square on the riverside of Qinhuai on February 18 [Photo by Xue Xiaohong]

A foreigner tasting Nanjing’s local food at Yinma Lane, Zhonghua Gate on October 15 [Photo by Xue Xiaohong]

A man with his birds in the cage, which he raised, in the square of Chaotian Palace on May 21 [Photo by Xue Xiaohong]

An old man sitting on a disabled tricycle and a child watching his car in a square on October 8 [Photo by Xue Xiaohong]

A roadside fruit stall vendor on the night of the Lunar New Year's Day [Photo by Xue Xiaohong]