In Still Towns, Hans Xu turns his eye to the quiet heart of small-town America—places where life moves unhurried, and stories settle gently into the grain of wood, the crack of paint, the rusted curve of a porch swing.

There is no spectacle here. No grand monuments, no loud declarations. Only presence—faded storefronts, shuttered diners, empty streets lined with time. Xu’s photographs dwell in this hush, capturing the stillness not as absence, but as a kind of reverence.

With his humanistic gaze and patient composition, Xu listens to the spaces others pass by. His lens reveals a quiet resilience, the dignity of the ordinary, and the poetry of lives lived quietly. Through soft natural light and tender gray tones, these towns speak—not in noise, but in breath, in shadow, in stillness.

Still Towns is not nostalgia. It is recognition. A visual tribute to the spaces where history lingers, where silence carries weight, and where beauty resides in what remains.