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How An-My Lê Makes Meaning from History’s Psychic Debris

Ocean Vuong reflects on Lê’s photographs of Vietnam and the US, considering how the artist masterfully uses blurred motion and stillness to reclaim the semiotics of war.

An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory

For the past three decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling.
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An Artist Sees the Potential for Healing in the Aftermath of War

In his videos and multimedia works about Vietnam, Tuan Andrew Nguyen shows how large-scale events reverberate through interpersonal stories.

Vân-Nhi Nguyen’s Bold Perspective on the Lives of Young People in Vietnam

Winner of the 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Nguyen casts an intimate gaze upon a generation confronting historical stereotypes.

A Photographer’s Final Collaboration with His Father

In 2019, Brian Lau traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to document the last months of his father’s life, creating a moving meditation on family and grief.

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Aperture No. 259

Guest edited by Tanisha C. Ford, Liberated Threads explores style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. This issue features image-makers who remix and reimagine twentieth-century “soul style,” creating a contemporary dialogue between photographers, filmmakers, and stylists from around the world.

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