a dead fish series [dedicated to hkhq]

To hkhq, (I know this is chessy so shut up!) I made this series for you as a thank you note. I said this to you so many times and I guess I will say it a lot more in near future because I just can’t help myself stop saying thank you to you. Thank you for supporting me and my photography from the very beginning, thank you for “always” being there for me in the other side of the chat box, thank you for your understanding and companionship. I wouldn’t be in this place today photographically if not because of your supportive talk in the first day. [Or would I?]. Because of you, this is always an on-going project so I will update the series whenever I can still do it. I don’t understand why you love dead fish but here you are, enjoy [your washi tape]!

This is a series I made from a friend’s request. I don’t have a statement for this series regard its meaning or purpose. Some are quite poetic, some are brutal, some are both. I find some photos look quite chaotic, but I like the way the chaos relates to the brutality those fish endured. If you like dead fish I hope you find these interesting.

These were shot on 35mm SLR without flash, the last 4 were shot with Yashica T4. Thank you for taking a look.

suburban series

This is a project that I realized that I need to make it as my first ever film project. As the number of photos I’ve taken keep increasing, I find that suburban vibe is the most common theme in my collection. Coming from a rural Vietnamese town, I find suburban is quite close to my heart. I love everything from old houses, rusty gates, broken cars, random stuff in flea market and abandoned things. Old things to me are not just things that stay around for a couple years but rather something that we share memories and stories with. My goal here is to document the beauty in such mundane moments of human’s lives and their poetic belongings.