Michael Nguyen

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The World and Everyone we haven’t know - in this life (2)

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Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Nationality: german

Biography: Most of the time, Michael Nguyen focuses on small, ordinary things but through the subjective lens, he give them new perspectives, a new soul. “With my camera I capture little things that we often don't notice in everyday life. I also... MORE

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1 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Berlin, Germany
# 3478
4/2022
Two tourists stand on the Skywalk, the roof of the Futurium Berlin, a museum, stage and forum for open questions about the future.

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2 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

The Hague, The Netherlands
# 3473
5/2022
Two women and a child walk down the stairs from the metro station of The Hague Centraal.

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3 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Cologne, Germany
# 3447
5/2022
An Asian street musician stands in a blue illuminated street tunnel and plays the violin. Europe, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne 21.5.22

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4 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Cologne, Germany
# 3446
5/2022
Cologne custom: love locks on the Hohenzollern Bridge - Eight young women stand leaning on a small wall on the Hohenzollern Bridge and look at the locks attached to the bridge. Europe, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne 21.5.22

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5 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Düsseldorf, Germany
# 3440
5/2022
Art in public space.
A man sits on a stone staircase in front of the artwork Rivertime by Hermann-Josef Kuhna. In 1997, the artist and professor of art Hermann-Josef Kuhna and his students created the mural "Rivertime" consisting of hundreds of thousands of colourful iridescent dots on the side walls of the staircase at Burgplatz and the adjacent Rhine wall. 20 years later, however, the artwork was partly dirty and smeared. Kuhna suggested replacing the acrylic paints with tile ceramics to avoid vandalism in the future. In 2017, the artwork was restored with this new idea.

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6 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Berlin, Germany
# 3357
5/2022
Poverty in Berlin. A young man sits on the ground of a pavement in Berlin. In front of him is a bowl with which he asks for money.

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7 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Berlin, Germany
# 3363
5/2022
A young man stands with his bicycle in front of Berlin-Tempelhof Airport. The airport was closed in 2008. A huge reconstruction took place in the mid-1930s after it was built in 1927.

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8 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3348
4/2022
A man with a hat watches people having fun at the Munich Spring Festival 2022. It is the first folk festival on the Theresienwiese after the Oktoberfest was cancelled twice due to the Corona Pandemic.

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9 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Wangen, Germany
# 3291
4/2022
An Asian man stands in an underpass in front of a wall shining from the sunlight and looks into the distance.

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10 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3409
4/2022
Father and son enjoying the fun at the Munich Spring Festival 2022.

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11 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3251
4/2022
A woman with a walking prosthesis stands in a pink coat on the Arnulfsteg, a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists in Munich. She places a carrier bag on one of the window sills.

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12 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Dresden, Germany
# 3235
3/2022
A man and a woman at night on Prager Straße in Dresden. They follow a light staging that is projected on a wall. The art action "Erlebnis(welt)raum" on Prager Straße. The projection is by multiple Emmy award-winning video artist Max Salomon.

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13 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Leipzig, Germany
# 3229
3/2022
A cyclist passes a red building facade in the university area. The color of his cap harmonizes with the color of the house wall.

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14 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Dresden, Germany
# 3209
3/2022
A little girl is cycling in front of Martin Luther monument at Frauenkirche in Dresden, Saxony.

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15 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Leipzig, Germany
# 3207
3/2022
A little boy walking with a balloon printed with Mr. & Mrs. on Augustusplatz in front of the Opera House in Leipzig.

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16 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Dresden, Germany
# 3190
3/2022
Several tourists, wearing Corona masks, walk through the old town of Dresden.

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17 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Salzburg, Austria
# 3143
3/2022
A cyclist passes under a bridge. He passes an asphalt surface brightly lit by the sun on which the shadow of a traffic sign can be seen.

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18 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Salzburg, Austria
# 3127
3/2022
A woman is standing on an e-scooter driving along the road, with her daughter in front of her. Both are wearing Corona protective masks.

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19 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3112
9/2019
A woman with a red backpack, eating a banana, walks on a sidewalk. Next to her a small ornamental canal in whose water she is reflected.

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20 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich (Nordhaide), Germany
# 3100
3/2022
A man is coming from shopping at the MIRA Shopping Mall in Munich. His shadow is on his left. In his left hand he carries a small plastic bag, in his right a cup with a drink. Behind him the colorful facade of the shopping center. Part of the facade consists of aluminum panels in which the surroundings are reflected.

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21 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Salzburg, Austria
# 2316
A pedestrian traffic light, at a zebra crossing which is decorated with coloured stripes, shows red. On the right, a little girl is crossing a white zebra stripe by jumping.

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22 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Eibsee/Zugspitze, Germany
# 3058
An Asian tourist sits on a train wearing a Covid mask, looking through the window at the snow-covered landscape. His face is reflected in the window.

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23 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Eichstätt, Germany
# 3080
Two women and a man walk up a steep footpath along a wall. On this the shadow of the man and one of the women. the third woman seems exhausted.

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24 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3044
A woman rides her bicycle past a barren wall and two traffic light poles and two parked electric scooters.

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25 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 2965
A beggar sits on the sidewalk in Sonnenstr. in Munich. His crutch is lying on the ground to his left. He looks to the left to see if passersby are coming.

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26 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3002
A couple walks on a footpath next to the entrance to the Petuel Tunnel. To read the headline of a newspaper in a sales box: How Corona changed us.

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27 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Starnberg, Germany
# 3024
A boy with a child's backpack walks along a sidewalk on the shore of a lake and startles the seagulls.

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28 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3042
A young woman with Covid mask rides her bike through a train station underpass. Behind her the wall with a cloud painting. In front of her a railing.

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29 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 3084
A security man is standing in front of the glass door of a building entrance on the front yard. On the back of his black shirt a print of his security company.

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30 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Salzburg, Austria
# 2332
An escalator at a railway station in Salzburg leading to the platform. A man with a full beard walks past the entrance to the station.

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31 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Murano/Venice, Italy
# 2793
A woman has a cigarette in her mouth, smoke around it. Above her, two red blankets, a purple jumper and a pair of stockings hang on a clothesline on the first floor in front of the burgundy-coloured wall of the house.

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32 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 117
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A woman is standing on a pavement. She has a cigarette between her lips which she has just lit.

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33 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Dresden, Germany
# 3210
3/2022
A man sits on a public chair on the side of the road near Dresden central station at night.

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34 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

ismaning, Germany
# 3436
2/2022
A man wearing a Corona mask walks past a house wall on which a tree has cast its shadow.

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35 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Venice, Italy
# 2771
11/2021
Love is love: A young gay couple walking in intimate embrace, wearing mouth nose masks during the Corona Pandemic in Venice.

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36 of 36 © 2022 Michael Nguyen

Munich, Germany
# 1988
8/2021
A man sits on the edge of a disused fountain in the Nymphenburger Höfe residential complex. The man's body is reflected in the residual water in the fountain basin.

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The World and Everyone we haven’t know - in this life (2)

Copyright Michael Nguyen 2022

Date of Work Jan 2022 - Ongoing

Updated Mar 2022

Location Germany, Austria, Italy

Topics Austria, Corona, Covid, Documentary, Editorial, Essays, Germany, Italy, Journalism, Pandemics, People, Photography, Photojournalism, Street, Urban

In the ongoing 2nd part of „The World and Everyone we haven’t know (in this life)“ Michael Nguyen shows also people on the streets, on playgrounds, on the river banks, in the train. We meet them everywhere. We don't talk to them, we just watch them doing whatever they are doing.

We don't ask ourselves what they are thinking or what their lives are like. We just like those moments and capture these. Because we want them in our memories. And maybe those people are not strangers. Maybe we know them in other lives.The woman riding a bicycle could be our mother. The homeless man could be our husband. The girls who waiting at the bus stop could be our sisters, the workers on the boat our brothers. Maybe someday we know them again in this life or the life after. But right now we miss them.

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