I was born in October 1994 in a small town in Vietnam’s Red River Delta. Growing up, drawing was my favourite way of expressing myself. Whenever my mother asked how my day at school had been, I rarely answered with words. Instead, I would draw little comic strips, turning the day’s events into stories on paper.
My curiosity gradually expanded into the digital world. In 2009, my father brought home a computer for work, and I quickly became fascinated by it. Video games introduced me to new worlds, while discovering Photoshop opened up another kind of creative playground. I spent countless hours drawing and experimenting on the computer, often losing track of time. When I was 16, I received my first digital camera – a simple point-and-shoot from my brother. It was nothing special in terms of technology, but to me, it opened up an entirely new way of seeing the world.
What fascinated me about photography was not just the act of taking a picture. I soon realised that pressing the shutter was only the beginning. A photograph straight out of the camera rarely conveyed everything I had imagined or wanted to express. I wanted to take things further, to shape the colours, atmosphere and details of an image into something closer to what I had seen and felt.
With my existing interests in art and computers, post-processing came naturally. I began experimenting with Photoshop, teaching myself how to work with light, colour and contrast, from simple adjustments to more complex techniques such as recovering details in bright skies when photographing against the light. It became a way of bringing together two things I had always loved: creating images and working with digital art.
I learned photography largely through experimentation and failure. Every day, I took my camera out to photograph the city where I lived – Hanoi – paying attention to the changing light, especially during the quiet hours of sunrise and sunset. In the evenings, I would return to my laptop to work on the images, experiment with different approaches, and learn from my mistakes. It was a simple routine, repeated day after day, but it taught me more than I could have imagined.
What started as a childhood curiosity gradually became a lifelong passion. It would take many more years of exploring, learning, and photographing before I turned that passion into a profession. Looking back, I can see that the journey had already begun long before I ever considered photography as a career.

Nowadays, I am passionate about photographing wilderness landscapes. I find myself drawn to multi-day expeditions.
During a trip to Urumqi, China, I bumped into three Chinese hikers. One of them asked, “Why would you want to come to such a remote, desolate place? What is even out here?”
We arrived as strangers, leaving our identities and backgrounds behind. Each of us carried only a backpack filled with the bare essentials. I realized that a long journey is much like a microcosm of life itself—you are compelled to discern what is truly necessary for survival, weighing carefully what you choose to bring along, all while navigating a path full of the unpredictable.
I choose to believe that, at its core, this world is a beautiful place. In the most remote and pristine corners, the only things I have ever encountered from the people I meet are kindness and love.
A new, unexplored location.
What stories will unfold here?

Updated November 2026