Tonghe Yang combines photographic history with contemporary practice. Through staged self-portraiture, she explores identity, authorship, ambiguity and transformation, drawing on her experience as a transgender woman. Her ongoing series, Daughter of Photographic History, reimages classic techniques through postmodern and poetic approaches, using methods such as wet plate and Van Dyke printing. The result is bold series of work that investigates the instability of identity, the limits of photographic representation and the potential of historical processes to express abstract and deeply personal ideas.