#Chiron Duong

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Portraits of Áo Dài by Chiron Duong

Portraits of Áo Dài series by photographer Chiron Duong.

Who is Chiron Duong? The architect turned photographer who portrays the many shades of Ao Dai, the traditional Vietnamese costume [read more at Vogue].

Where can I find out more about him? chironduong.com

Where can I see more of his work? chironduong [on Instagram]

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An Ode To Vietnam And Its Women by Chiron Duong 

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©Chiron Duong

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Chiron Duong: from the "Healing" series. https://www.behance.net/chironduong

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Chiron Duong, Portraits Of “Áo Dài” (2021-2022), From Fisheye Gallery

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Chiron Duong

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Chiron Duong

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Chiron Duong

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An Ode To Vietnam And Its Women Chiron Duong On Its Photographic Project Portraits Of Áo Dài

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Portraits of Áo Dài: Hope for Peace and Love, Chiron Duong

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@prazzlein 10 out of 365 Photos from "Portraits of "Ao Dai" a series by Vietnamese visual artist @chironduong

"One day I was asked by many foreign friends about Ao Dai, but unfortunately I haven't taken many pictures of Ao Dai. Ao Dai is a special traditional dress of my country- Viet Nam. So I decided to start a project (365 days with Ao Dai) to shoot on traditional Ao Dai based on unique traditional and modern values.

Vietnamese Ao Dai is not only a kind of national dress but also contains a rich history, cultural traditions, aesthetic conceptions, national consciousness and spirit of the Vietnamese people.

The models in this photo series are mostly my friends in many different fields, they are not professional models who stood in front of the camera for the first time."

ART | CHIRON DUONG * @chironduong.vietnamstudio

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SUMMATIVE SUBMISSION

Lingering is a series of conceptual photographs that explore my personal feelings with my sense of self. As time passes and I continue to grow up, there a times in which I have felt like I have no purpose in life. Like a ghost, I feel like I am simply drifting through life. Wandering and not leaving a mark on the world. I wanted my series of images to invoke those emotions of feeling like one just lingers, existing, and hoping that this series could help me to understand and process these emotions better. 

Manipulation both in-camera and in post-production is common in the genre of conceptual photography. Photographers purposely use the manipulation to address and achieve images which may not be possible by just taking a photograph. Lingering is a series of conceptual photographs that has been created to be viewed in an online gallery. The photographs in this series work can be viewed as standalone images while still being part of a series. An online gallery is an accessible way for people to experience art. People can view it from the comfort of their own home, making art available to all people especially to those who do not like leaving their home like myself. I am hoping that my work could help inspire people who also feel like they may not have a sense of purpose. 

I was initially inspired by photographer Chiron Duong and the movement of his images that has become his established photography style.[1] This led to my curiosity and experimentation with the technique of intentional camera movement. Intentional camera movement is a form of in-camera manipulation as it utilises slow shutter speed with camera movement.[2] This technique creates these movement filled, streaky photographs that appear almost like paintings. Photographers such as Aleksandr Babarikin[3] and Andrew S. Gray[4] whose style consists of ICM photography, both cite impressionist paintings as their own inspiration for their work. This has helped to inform my own decisions while experimenting with this technique. For post-production editing, I layered a few of my images over one another. Lowering the opacities of each layer, changing the blend options, and using the paintbrush to paint on highlights, this helped to add more movement and create the ghost like quality of my images. A gestural feeling can be seen through the three photographs, similar to the strokes of a painting. This gestural feeling in a way contradicts the idea of feeling like one has a lack of purpose. Each stroke of a painting has a purpose as it slowly builds up over time to create a piece of art. David Thomas is an artist whose work explores the function of painting, photo painting and installation.[5] In his exhibition Colouring Impermanence[6], the process of his work is just as celebrated as much as the final paintings. Paintings are normally seen as the “final” and “perfect” version of the pieces but the process in getting to that point is just as important. How does one know when to finish a painting? In this way digitally manipulated photographs and paintings are quite similar as there are so many ways in which one can edit a photograph so how do you know when to finish editing?  

Experiencing feelings of purposelessness and wandering are explored through the photographic series Lingering. Inspired by photographers such as Aleksandr Babarikin, Andrew S. Gray and Chiron Duong and their movement filled images. This series uses intentional camera movement and digital manipulation to create painting like photographs and invoke feelings used to help me to understand my sense of self better. 

[1] ‘CHIRON DUONG’, 30 November 2022. https://www.chironduong.com/

[2] Hoiberg, Christian. ‘What Is ICM Photography? (And How to Master It)’. CaptureLandscapes, 18 November 2022. https://www.capturelandscapes.com/icm-photography/. 

[3] Hypebeast. ‘Through the Lens: Aleksandr Babarikin Documents Life Experiences Through Abstraction’, 29 June 2023. https://hypebeast.com/2023/6/aleksandr-babarikin-through-the-lens-spotlight. 

[4] Andrew S Gray, “About”, Andrew S Gray Photography, Accessed 4 October 2024, https://andrewsgray.photography/about  

[5] ‘David Thomas Biography’. Accessed 17 October 2024. https://davidthomasartist.com.au/pages/biography.html 

[6] editor. ‘David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence’. Art Guide Australia, 10 August 2017. https://artguide.com.au/david-thomas-colouring-impermanence/. 

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