youth

Album – Silk Fan

This series highlights Confucian influences in the Vietnamese youth.
Portraits were taken at the cultural festival in the city of Hue, former imperial capital where scenes of mimes reconstituted the life in the Forbidden City. Models are wearing traditionnal ao dai dress.
Fans’ images are Chinese historical fan from the MET Archive.
The series uses the framing of drawings and paintings which is the common manner to see images on a wall or in a book.

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Album – Students of Traditional Vietnamese Arts

These portraits done in 20012 is part of a documentary project done with the collaboration of the Fine Arts University of HCMC.

Series – Wonderland Mutants

It is a kingdom that children build out of sight of adults. It is a theater without a stage of an unknown time where the people gather like in a village’s market place. Princesses, murderers, bears, aliens, all parade in a cheerful and festive crowd.