TITLE: Threshold States

Thresholds is a black-and-white photographic series exploring the delicate, often invisible boundaries that define our experience of the world. These images live in the space between: between self and other, light and shadow, form and dissolution. Each frame is a meditation on thresholds—not only as physical borders, but as intimate zones where perception, emotion, and matter intersect.

In this series, the city becomes a stage for fragmented presences: a handprint fading on a floating panel, a figure swallowed by darkness, a wandering dog between movement and stillness. Faces blur, forms dissolve, and what remains is a residue—a suggestion more than a statement. These are not portraits or landscapes, but moments of becoming, where light and grain conspire to form presence from particles.

To stand at a threshold is to encounter the edge of knowing—to sense what is felt more than seen. In these photographs, the camera is not a tool for capturing the world, but for tracing the fragile line where the world begins to speak back. Thresholds invites the viewer into that liminal space, where meaning flickers, shifts, and ultimately mirrors the soft boundaries of the self.

AUTHOR: Baitong Wang (France)

Wang Baitong (b. 1992) is a Chinese visual artist based in France, working in film post-production. His photographic practice focuses on street photography, exploring themes of urban solitude, personal identity, and the quiet tension between individuals and their surroundings. Known for his sensitivity to everyday moments, Wang’s images often capture the delicate interplay of distance, stillness, and emotion in public spaces. He continues to develop a personal visual language rooted in the observation of human presence and absence within the urban landscape.