Promo art photo Ref. 6467
Souls Migration – Negative Portrait of a Girl

Photographer Quang Lam tells the context for this photo.
“This series visually narrates my journey across a land of Chinese migration with my research of the ancestors’ tombs in Bac Lieu. According to family records, our ancestral vault is situated in the tranquil village of Hoa Binh,
This small family village has transformed now into a bustling town, and the thin information I had was that the tombs now reside within a Cambodian cemetery—it felt akin to searching for a needle in a haystack.
Asking for clues to the locals, I unexpectedly stumbled upon a rare collection of glass negatives from a photography studio in an antiquarian shop. It seemed as though my ancestors sought to reconnect with me through these haunting images, reminiscent of the concept of memento mori.”