Thong Vo

Photographer
   
Days after her 100th
Location: Ho Chi Minh City
Nationality: Vietnam
Biography: Thong Vo (born in 1990) is a documentary photographer from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Thong graduated from RMIT Vietnam University with Communication degree, having worked in Creative and Digital Media fields before switching to photography. He built... MORE
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Days after her 100th
Copyright Thong Vo 2024
Updated Mar 2023
Location Huế, Vietnam
Topics Spotlight

DAYS AFTER HER 100.


In this project, made for the centenary celebration of my Grandmother, I challenge myself to create a photographic work that portrays Grandmother through representations of her body and the objects associated with it in daily routines.  

Human body ages with time, it is a nature we cannot resist. Objects, on the other spectrum, just like souvenirs, witness time and save memories. I play around with this paradox by making a series of diptychs, pairing a portrait of Grandmother's body part with that of an object significantly or intimately belonging to it.    

Although taken inspiration from John Copland's works in which he explored his own body through photographs, my work is comparatively instinctive. I hold little concern of what it eventually looks like, what matters is how it feels like. This is as much a personal experience, like a memoir to remember about my Grandma. At her age of 100, we all know that someday, she will be gone. If there is anything I can do to keep her memorized against the flow of time, this is it.




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