![An elderly couple stand arm in arm outside a brick building](/sites/default/files/styles/collections_feature_785x295/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Home%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988779738-1_0.jpg?h=0fd33ae8&itok=a4X93Vtd)
Eight works from Australian photographer Anna Zhu’s Yah Yah series (2008) have recently been added to the Library’s collection.
Yah Yah tells the story of Zhu’s grandparents’ intimate closeness in a collection of understated, candid stills. The series explores the artist’s Chinese Australian heritage and the impact of her grandparents’ migration to Australia in 1998.
The evocative images capture a relationship in a domestic setting and hint at broader themes of isolation and loneliness within migrant communities.
![A woman helps her husband put on his winter hat](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Devotion%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988779894-1.jpg?itok=agqc5Ksp)
![Hands are visible rifling through papers on a wooden counter](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Diaries%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988779974-1.jpg?itok=JwWx2924)
![An elderly couple stand arm in arm outside a brick building](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Home%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988779738-1.jpg?itok=Dw6W6G2I)
![A man stands in a cluttered kitchen with broken cabinet doors](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Making%20Do%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988779818-1.jpg?itok=HsjHFWke)
![A man sits with an open book; a woman stands against a cabinet in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Memory%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988780214-1.jpg?itok=x3g4DB2z)
![A close-up of an elderly man looking directly into the camera](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Strength%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988780295-1.jpg?itok=isPlqQ3y)
![A man stands outside a tall wooden fence in daylight](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Winter%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988780057-1.jpg?itok=kvikwh0s)
![Hands hold a small black and white photograph of a man up to the camera](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/media/images/2022-08/Anna%20Zhu%20%27Youth%27%20Yah%20Yah%20nla.obj-2988780134-1.jpg?itok=T0ttKl46)