In meticulously executed photographs, Shaohan Fang stages images that interrogate the precipice of adulthood, centering a young woman’s fraught relationship with questions of home. Created in Wenzhou China, the photographs tap into the tensions between ideal life and reality that most young adults feel upon turning 30, an age that universally signals full adulthood. En Route signals that this arrival is always a few steps ahead of expectations, and that transition itself might be a permanent state of being.

By Noelle Théard