Night, a 24-hour laundromat in a Chinese city, shot on an ea

Night, a 24-hour laundromat in a Chinese city, shot on an early-2000s CCD point-and-shoot with the flash fired straight on. An East Asian woman in an oversized grey T-shirt and cotton shorts sits on top of a front-loading washer, wet hair pushed back, knees up, bare feet on the machine rim. Fluorescent tubes overhead make her skin chalky white; the dryers behind her spin a blur of someone else's clothes. Blue detergent bottles, a plastic basin, a coin tray, a hand-written no-shoes sign taped crooked. Flash flare on the glass door, harsh shadows, blown highlights, purple fringing, JPEG artifacts, slight motion blur on her hand.