Waking up to exploding bombs with cameras, lenses over shoulders, and heading back to refugee camps were once my future vision of self as a war correspondent when I was a child.
I am a visual narrator growing up during the 1990s in Hanoi (Vietnam), a millennium-old capital that has become a centre of South East Asia's politics and culture. I use photography as well as other approaches to document and share stories about social and environmental issues, focusing on the underprivileged. Adopting multi-media techniques such as interviewing, researching, and data-analyzing from my 14-year journalism background, I explore my subject matters conceptually and critically, with a touch of humour. I have several projects in progress: an investigative study about domestic violence, literature research about pollution regarding micro-plastics, and a photo-book of a unique shelter for deaf teenagers in central Vietnam. I believe in humanity, in one's self-awareness and self-reflection. |
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