Season (2023)

These photographs were made across California and Vietnam in 2023—a year that began in the crowd and ended on the water. Two Lunar New Year celebrations anchored the first months: Monterey Park in January, San Francisco's Chinatown in February. Between and after them, the streets of Los Angeles and the Venice boardwalk. In December, Vietnam for the first time since before the pandemic—Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta, where my eye found a different kind of quiet—a world figuring itself out post-pandemic. For me, these are photographs of a practice finding its rhythm again, out in the world after years of contraction.