In a green island, far from all men’s knowing (from Sleep and Poetry, John Keats, 1817) 5 channel video installation, ambient sound, 20 minutes, looped – privately contracted migrant construction workers asleep in a French colonial era botanic garden adjacent to the government building site, Hanoi  Installation view
Eclipse, 2016 Short film collaboration with artist/performer/director Viet Le View Film
euro2aura 2015, oil painting, photocopy, pencil drawing, artist book, 17 minute film Considering Walter Benjamin’s theory of art and mechanical reproduction, the work explores the potential of imbuing a mass-produced object, here a 20 euro note, with the aura a work of art might possess (and labor less than its face value) View film
Sorry, Can You Wait One Minute? 2013, installation with video and photographs The photographer makes portraits. The photographer leaves the subject alone with the camera for some minutes. The photographer returns. Did anything change? View film
Catalog Of Gesture, 2016 Produced during the 2016 US election cycle while living in Berlin. Installation includes groupings of numerous large, still images of a white, male figure in a black suit in soft focus and a number of stop motion moving images (sample)
Hanoiville 2014-15
Sitting Still / 20 second daylight portraits, Hanoi 2013
Still. Life. 2013
That Little Distance 2013 These portraits were produced inside an old, previously state-owned factory in Hanoi, Vietnam. The room had a large, north-facing window permitting no direct sunlight – only a soft,even illumination throughout the day. The exposure times of the photographs are between 15 and 20 seconds. The photographer appears in all of the […]
Lying Down 2012
Jo Ha Kyu Tokyo 2011 Exhibited as a companion series to the film Jo Ha Kyu by filmmaker Nguyen Trinh Thi, Japan Foundation, 2012
The Desiring Garden 2011
The Long Bien Picture Show
This portfolio of 50 portraits was made as a continuation of the work begun in When Evening Comes. The portfolio was part of an exhibition I produced and curated called The Long Bien Picture Show – four photographers and four filmmakers working in the same area during the same 3 month period.
Narrative Reel
Commercial – Ponds Twist
Commercial – Milo
Commercial – Laughing Cow
When Evening Comes
Portraits made in the Long Bien night market, summer 2009. A selection published at burn magazine, May 2010.
Rented White Gowns
In Vietnam the wedding album is produced prior to the wedding and displayed at the reception. Some images are made in studios but many are produced in the city’s few remaining green spaces. 2008-09
Across Long Bien Bridge
Spanning the Red River, heavily bombed, over 100 years old; the Long Bien Bridge is both an iconic symbol and the practical means of getting somewhere or nowhere at all. 2008
State of Youth
A series focused on contemporary youth culture in Vietnam, 2007-08. Funded by the Fulbright Foundation.
Single Images