Untitled, from the Viet Nam series, 1999
Gelatin silver prints, 16 x 20 inches
In 1999, on the cusp of a new millennium, I returned to Viet Nam for the first time since leaving as a child refugee. I was in my early twenties, seeking to reconnect with a place I had never truly known—a homeland I carried in memory from my parents more than in experience. On that journey, I met my grandmother for the first time. From her hands, I received a gift more precious than I could have imagined: a bundle of family photographs, fragments of lives and moments that would become a wellspring for my artistic journey. I printed some images from that trip—a return home, though not quite home. A place remembered, imagined, and now seen.
