Sunshine
Lê Nguyên Phương
Tall Poppy Press
Vietnamese, English
Softcover
First Edition of 200
168 pages
240 × 183 mm
2024
ISBN 9780645274677
The debut monograph from Phuong Nguyen, “Sunshine” uses the western Melbourne suburb of the same name as a geographic anchor point to examine the lingering post-war trauma and resettlement in Australia among Vietnamese migrants after the American War.
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About the Artist
Lê Nguyên Phương (or Phuong Nguyen Le in Western naming convention) (b. 2002) is a Vietnamese emerging artist studying in Naarm (Melbourne). Through his photographic practice, he focuses on themes of collective identity, family, and sexuality in the aftermath of the American War in Indochina. This brings Phuong to unpack his positionality in an ongoing colonial structure, one that persists across the Asia-Pacific region through forms of cultural-political division.
Phương is interested in exploring the occupying space between documentary and art photography with projects that concern his surrounding communities. He hopes to further expand his research and practice in collaboration with emerging Vietnamese and South East Asian artists.
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About the Publisher
Tall Poppy Press is a Melbourne-based publisher of photography books, workshops and merch. Their aim is to publish excellent Australian photography, or collaborations between Australian and non-Australian artists. Tall Poppy Press believes in emerging artists, financially fair models of publishing and making books somewhere between a coffee table tome and a zine. It was founded in 2021, and is run by Matt Dunne and Morganna Magee.
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