For Li Jie and Zhang Jungang, photography is a form of personal hygiene as natural as eating or washing. They regret when they forget to take photos, but they never force themselves to shoot: photographs, they feel, lie in wait for them. They are often puzzled by the beauty they capture, and believe the camera can sometimes be superior to their own senses. But they are not interested in evoking wonder or emotion. They are sceptical of the divide between past and present, a distinction which they believe photography has traditionally conspired to emphasise. They do not want to tell stories with their camera. Instead, they seek to confirm their intuitions.