Urban Fringes: Stories of the Everyday

• Photographer
  Hung-Chun Pien
• Technical Info
  Canon R8 Rf24-105 F4
• Photo Date
  August 2025

Taipei’s lifestyle is found not in polished malls but in alleys and markets. A man savoring a sausage, elders pushing carts of recyclables, strangers helping after a fall—each gesture raw, ordinary, vital. Survival itself becomes culture, humor and resilience shaping the city’s rhythm. Yet lifestyle is not only noise and labor. As night falls, a man waits alone at a bus stop, neon flickering above. This solitude, quiet yet profound, is also part of the city’s pulse—the unseen poetry of everyday life on the edge.