Ling Chen Is Lensed by Liu Song in 'The Power of Water' for Vogue Me China August 2019

Ling Chen Is Lensed by Liu Song in 'The Power of Water' for Vogue Me China August 2019

Model Ling Chen drifts in ‘The Shape of Water’, perhaps a nod to great Chinese water goddesses like Ehuang & Nuying, goddesses of the Xiang River. The inspiring, haunting images resonate in tune with the matriarchal global unity of Africa’s Mam Wata — the mother of all humanity — and a genderless, pluralistic, non-race-based tradition that preceded monotheism.

Photographer Liu Song captures the poignant beauty, imbued with a quiet tension of a moment about to happen — a powerful rising of ancient traditions and consciousness — on full display in Vogue Me China August 2019.