Thirteen years ago, Jeremy—a Frenchman who was visiting Hainan as a tourist—found himself falling in love with the island’s beauty. Although he didn’t speak Chinese at the time, he made the decision to move here. A lover of rhythm and the language of music as a method of communication, he made many friends, and became integrated into Hainan’s society as a “New Hainanese”.

Four years ago, Jeremy and a few friends jointly set up a photography studio in Haikou. “I wanted to make more people aware of this city, so that they too could fall in love with it.” From Xixiu Beach to Century Bridge, from the Volcano Crater Park to the Wormhole Library, from the colonnaded walkways of the historic downtown to the modern skyscrapers of the CBD, Jeremy uses the lens of a camera as his medium for showing off Haikou’s cultural, natural and historical scenery. Whether still photos or moving video, his original artistic works have become a "window" for the world to understand Hainan.

He is of the opinion that, his photos are ordinary records of minor things which can help people outside of China to better understand what the country is really like. "What I regret most is that I didn't record more of Haikou the way it was when I first arrived." This regret of Jeremy’s comes from the lightning fast speed with which the city of Haikou is transforming. Like a chrysalis becoming a butterfly, one can say that it is "changing with each passing day". This sort of change, which can be called “China speed”, is something that cannot be seen in other—already more developed—places.