Tan Siok Siok's black-and-white photos reveal a touching and lively side of daily lives in Beijing's hutong area.
One winter morning, she noticed an old man riding a three-wheeled vehicle very slowly, with his wife sitting behind him.
Tan followed the couple for a while to discover that they were taking a sightseeing tour of the hutong. The wife was unable to move due to her poor health condition, so her husband was showing her around the city.
"People in the hutong are optimistic and that touched my heart," Tan says.
She says Beijing is a city where the country's rapid changes are clearly visible, and in some ways, the same is true of the city's old alleyways.
Tan once saw the owners of shops enjoying tea in front of their outlets in Fangjia, but found that the shops had been demolished the following day.
For her, taking photos is a way to ease pressure from work.
She is good at capturing people's expressions without them noticing her, a skill she gained from her years as a documentary filmmaker.
Before arriving in Beijing in 2010, Tan worked for the Discovery TV channel on many documentary films in Singapore.
Tan likes to focus on people stories, she says. That's why her hutong project was on them.
Bao Jihong, a longtime friend of Tan, says: "Tan's photos show us a Beijing that we are familiar with but largely ignore."
Tan's next project is to shoot a series of photos on Chinese women from different generations, with which she hopes to tell the story of how they view a rapidly changing society.
