Album – 360° Muybridge Motion
The psychological consequence of motion through the hyper-real world is, expressed by the 360° serial photography of Honda models sold in Vietnam’s market.
Gallery Photography
Scene – Call from Abroad
This scene is part of the work on the series “Escape” talking about migration.
The Man is in a hotel, a temporary transit place in a stand-by situation. But he has been waiting for so long. Can this phone call bring him the hope for a liberation?
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Scene – Patterns of Thoughts
This scene is part of the work on the series “Escape” talking about migration.
The theme of the psychological maze is explored through patterns of doors (Thy Nguyen Truong Minh Installation), corridors, rooms, and stairs in old buildings of Saigon.
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Story – Buddha Temptation
This series is telling the temptation of Siddhārtha Buddha by the Goddess of Beauty, in an imaginary paradise full of flowers. As principle of Buddhism, the Middle Way should be followed between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification. But it is not easy to comply strictly with this recommendation.
Seeing photography is more an analogic process than a logic one, with a sense of humor too. This is how the series should be appreciated as a fairy tale.
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Album – Vietnam analog 24×36 format
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Story – Garden of Dream Objects
“Dream objects” subject has been developed by the Surrealists. The chance meeting of a strange object, a “slipper spoon”, provoked a sense of déja-vu to poet André Breton. That object was analyzed later as an artifact from his dreams.
Album – Body of Hyper-reality
Body as Fashionable body used is a new type of Body not related to the Human Being neither a Robot.
It is a new entity, a fusion between mechanics and organics that has inspired the controversial novel “Crash” by J. G. Ballard.
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.
See Kyoto and Die
The title refer to the famous expression “See Venice and Die”.
It describes the particular esthetic experience one might encounter while visiting some cities in the world. The photographer has been twice in Kyoto. Images of the exhibition are related to the second trip, which happened 12 years after the first one.
Souvenirs, street photography and fictional images are mixed to define his ephemeral consciousness of perfection in this photographic essay.
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Series – State of Emergency
“France’s state of emergency imposed after last year’s terror attacks in Paris is likely to be extended” – BBC, 13rd November 2017