All photos © Stefen Chow.

Stefen Chow‘s personal project, “My Neighbour,” focuses on the communities he lives in. For the last two years Chow has been living in a 500 year old Hutong (Alleyway) in Beijing, and many who live there have roots in the neighborhood that span generations and often have connections in some way to the dynastic period of the Forbidden City, China’s former imperial palace. The father of one of his neighbors, for instance, was the vegetarian chef of Puyi, China’s last emperor.