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Foreign Home: Vietnam

Photography & Writing: Hon Hoang

Finding the right words buried under two and a half decades of assimilation proved to be difficult. Perhaps it was my accent, my child-like vocabulary, or maybe everything about me was foreign to this place I thought of as home.

Being in Ho Chi Minh city after 11 years since my last visit feels different yet the same. The skyline has given birth to more towers…

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Dépaysement Exhibition: Jaehoon "Ken" Shin

Dépaysement Exhibition: Jaehoon “Ken” Shin

Name Jaehoon “Ken” Shin Submission Title 劇場 Country Japan Photographer BioI had a pretty hectic upbringing, with frequent moves across lots of geography. The question “where are you from?” paralyzes me. I never lived in a place for long, and photography became a way to take in the feeling of a place at a human pace. It hammered into me that the world is as orderly as it is chaotic, as…

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Dépaysement Exhibition: Susan Linville

Dépaysement Exhibition: Susan Linville

Name Susan Linville Submission Title Burmese Days Country Myanmar (Burma) Photographer BioMy name is Susan Slater Linville and I am a Photographer and Graphic Designer based out of Santa Monica, CA. I started taking pictures when I was a child and remember when we had to drop off the film to be developed! I continue to take pictures wherever life takes me and I am sharing these photos…

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Interview: Rebel Riders – Muhammad Fadli

Interview: Rebel Riders – Muhammad Fadli (@mfimages) #rebelriders #dienachtmagazine #indonesia #vespaextreme

In this interview, Hon Hoang interviewed Muhammad Fadli on his recent photo-book Rebel Riders and his work as a photographer. For more details on Muhammad Fadli and his photobook, please go to: dienacht-magazine

Perhaps the desire to build stems from a need to be creative or wanting to possess what can not be bought. Inquisitions arise when looking at images of Indonesian Extreme Vespas.…

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"I shoot if I have something that makes me feel different from other things. I think photography is another expression of dreams." In this interview, Hon Hoang interviews Yoon Jeong Vin (Spike Yun), a street Photographer from South Korea currently in Kuwait. https://ift.tt/2O6P95x #streetphotography #photography #asiaphotoreview https://ift.tt/2Nxk4Xw

Editor’s Showcase: Flowers and Poisons - Chim Sis

Editor’s Showcase: Flowers and Poisons – Chim Sis

Name Chim Sis

Submission Title Flowers and Poisons

Country Laos

Photographer Bio

I was born in France in the ‘80s from a Laotian father and a Vietnamese mother. I am a self-taught photographer, photography is my mode of self-expression. I started my photographic work in 2010, with my series “Rooted”: an introspective journey through Laos in search of my very own roots. My whole artistic work…

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Reader's Gallery: October

Reader’s Gallery: October

Featured Image By: Marco Serafini Amici

Thank you to all of our reader’s that are contributing to the community. We at Asia Photo Review really enjoy seeing the little snippets of life that are captured through your eyes. For this post of Reader’s Gallery we get to take a look at life in Cambodia, Hong Kong, and India.

A special thank you to Marco Serafini Amici, Takaaki Ishikura, and Dolly Ave f…

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Interview: Roadmaps of Mythology - Vasantha Yogananthan

In this interview, Hon Hoang talks to Vasantha Yogananthan, a photographer currently in based Paris. 

In our youth, we would often listen to fairy tales and myths. Tales about people and places of grandeur, imagining events of mysticism. For most people, these stories would remain to be only that, but for Vasantha Yogananthan, they’re roadmaps.

Using The Ramayanaand remembering the epic poem,…

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Interview: Frenetic City – Zhou HanShun

In this interview, Hon Hoang talks to artistic photographer Zhou HanShun.

With the unknown, our mind fills in the information gaps while we seek out what we believe to be true. There is beauty in that mystery and need of resolution. The sensation of the unknown is familiar to photographers. The need for exploration and resolution, whether within the world on within our minds. It is a familiar…

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