Character Development

Photograph by Patrick Quinn , National Geographic Your Shot

Amateur opera singers transform themselves into their characters before a performance in China. They all have day jobs and are extremely busy, but they have a passion for Hainan Opera, writes Patrick Quinn, who submitted this picture to the recent Your Shot assignment Transitions: As the World Turns . [This is] where they paint on masks and become someone else.

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