With a keen fascination for Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographic style, Tim Gao has been persistently shooting Shanghai street photography since 2012, being influenced by many great photographers such as Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Josef Koudelka, Marc Riboud, Takuma Nakahira and Issei Suda, among others. His work shows the exquisite craftsmanship needed to obtain street photography, especially with film cameras.