Every winter, a train runs across the island of Hokkaido in Japan. Known as the Okhotsk‑no‑Kaze (Wind of Okhotsk), it inspired the name of a series of snow-covered images by Shanghai-based photographer Ying Yin. “Snow is like a frame,” she says. “It can make usual things unusual. These photos show the feel of Hokkaido in heavy snow: silence, loneliness, time frozen, the snow making the city like a watercolour.” Yin manipulates her images to blend modern photography and classical art. “There is a traditional Chinese painting skill, Liu Bai, which means you leave white space to allow others to fill it with their imaginations. I move the unnecessary details away… You can start imagining.”