A brand new chapter in my pictures…

After greater than a decade capturing documentary portraits, I felt the necessity to discover one thing new. Since the tip of 2022, I’ve spent most of my time experimenting, researching, and difficult myself to see pictures in a different way. That curiosity led me to develop two new strategies in my profession: Reflection and Heat.

Both are rooted in the identical concept: capturing what’s about to vanish.

With Reflection, I observe how mild interacts with water, on the seaside at daybreak, in flooded rice fields, or alongside the river in Hội An. These moments final only some seconds. A form stretches, melts, vanishes. There’s no solution to maintain on to it. But if I’m totally current, I can catch its hint earlier than it’s gone.

The Heat method emerged from the seasonal burning of rice fields close to Hội An, which occurs solely twice a yr. I {photograph} simply meters from the flames, surrounded by smoke and distortion. I don’t management the weather. The hearth strikes. The warmth shifts the air. The farmer walks. The picture kinds, then disappears. Even I can’t replicate the identical shot twice.

There are not any filters. Just the uncooked interplay of sunshine, warmth, distortion and timing.

People usually inform me these pictures seem like work at first look, and I see it too. For me, this new route follows the identical objective because the Impressionist masters: capturing the impact of the sunshine on a fleeting second. That’s precisely what I’m aiming for.

Alongside the traditional pictures lots of me for, and that I’ll proceed to take, I needed to share this new route. A extra private and experimental course of. One that responds to the concept of impermanence, the understanding that nothing stays the identical and that each passing second carries its personal magnificence.

As the Vietnamese say: vô thường. Nothing lasts. But that’s not a limitation. It’s what makes every second value noticing.

This new chapter is about embracing that move and letting the {photograph} emerge from it.

In 2025, I revealed a brand new ebook titled Impressionism: From Photography to Painting, out there in English and French. It explains this evolution in additional element. You can discover it, together with the most recent impressionist pictures, on my official web site.

I’d love to listen to what you see and really feel in these pictures.