In the remote mountain village of Basha, in China’s Guizhou province, life moves to a rhythm that feels almost outside of time. Known as the “last gunmen tribe,” the Basha Miao people maintain customs that have survived centuries — their distinctive topknots, homes of timber and smoke, and rituals tied to the land.

These photographs were made over several visits, not as a document of a disappearing culture, but as a quiet study of continuity and presence. Each portrait is an exchange — brief yet deliberate — between photographer and subject, shaped by trust, curiosity, and respect.

Working in black and white, the series emphasizes tone, texture, and gesture over spectacle. The absence of color allows the viewer to focus on the dignity in small details: a turned head, a line of light across a face, a trace of woodgrain in shadow.

Basha is less an ethnographic record than an attempt to listen — to see how tradition endures, not through performance, but through the everyday grace of those who live it.