Awards
‘It Is What It Is’ | reFocus Color Photography Awards 2024 | Architecture | Honourable Mention
‘It Is What It Is’ | Minimalist Photography Awards 2023 | Open Category | Winner, Third Place
‘Nature Charcoals’ | Monovisions Photography Awards 2023 | Fine Art | Honourable Mention
‘untitled i’ | Monovisions Photography Awards 2023 | Fine Art | Honourable Mention
‘Be | Am | Are’ | reFocus Color Awards 2023 | Architecture | Nomination
‘untitled i’ | Fine Art Photography Awards 2023 | Open Theme | Nomination
‘Flotilla’ | Fine Art Photography Awards 2023 | Abstract | Nomination
‘Flotilla’ | Annual Photography Awards 2022 | Special: Open | Honourable Mention
‘Flotilla I’ | Monochrome Awards 2022 | Fine Art | Honourable Mention
‘Flotilla’ | Budapest International Foto Awards 2022 | Fine Art | Honourable Mention
‘Flotilla’ | Neutral Density Awards 2022 | Fine Art | Honourable Mention
‘Flotilla’ | Pollux Awards 2022 | Fine Art | Honourable Mention
‘Flotilla’ | Monovisions Photography Awards 2022 | Fine Art | Honourable Mention
‘Flotilla’ | Moscow International Foto Awards 2022 | Fine Art, Bronze Award
‘New Vietnam’ | Canon Photo Marathon Vietnam 2009 | First Prize
Exhibitions
‘Flotilla I’ | Group Exhibition | Nov’ 2022 | Pollux Awards, Barcelona Foto Biennale | Fotonostrum, Barcelona, Spain
The Philippines Easter Processions | Group Exhibition | 2013 | EXP12 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Vietnam in Black & White | Solo Exhibition | 2012 | Tamarind Café, Hanoi, Vietnam
Vietnamese Highlands | Group Exhibition | 2007 | Enmedio Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Grants
‘Poison In The Water’ | 2016 | European Journalism Centre Grant
Artist Statement
My aim is to draw the viewer in by unsettling them through abstraction, repetition, or a subtle fracturing of the familiar.
At the moment I lean towards shooting on medium format film, specifically using a Holga, but I also use digital cameras if I feel a project needs a higher base-level of control. Whatever the means, I like to incorporate an element of chance and allow my work to create and ultimately embrace its own imperfections. I do this, for example, by taking multiple exposures, or intentionally loading the film into the camera incorrectly.
My current work is progressing along two clear paths. One focuses on the resilience and fragility of nature in the face of human activity and large-scale environmental change, and the other is an exploration of mental health.
My goal in the exploration of these two threads is to find ways to explicitly combine them to reflect humanity and nature’s symbiotic relationship, and the extent to which each relies on the other for well-being and, ultimately, survival.