The Road Less Traveled — Finding Family with Cheuk-Yin

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As the modern world continues to race toward the future, we can find ourselves constantly groping for radical or material ways to find our identities in it. But while we might be obsessed with going forward and discovering the new, we sometimes forget to look back and to the old—to our own pasts. Cheuk-Yin To is a photographer we used to work with. One summer evening, we caught up at the office where he shared a special story with us, of how he took a side trip on a whim only to find both his roots and a few long-lost relatives.

Script and Narration by Nate Kan
Audio by Elphick Wo
Photos by Cheuk-Yin To

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