Photography submission by Thuy Tien Dinh:
I’m from Northern Vietnam, where I grew up in a family of tailors. Both of my parents have spent their lives making clothes in our hometown, working with their hands, measuring, mending, and paying close attention to small details. That environment shaped how I see the world - through texture, patience, and the quiet labor behind ordinary things.
I moved to the UK over seven years ago to study film production. I never ended up pursuing film professionally, probably because I’m still waiting for an epiphany, and because photography became a slower, more personal way for me to look and linger. Living between cultures has left me feeling both inside and outside of places at once, and that in-between state naturally feeds into my work.
For this submission, I’m not presenting a single, fixed series, but a collection of fragments I keep thinking back to. They don’t form a narrative so much as a shared atmosphere: traces of presence, pauses, and moments where something ordinary feels briefly unfamiliar, tender, or unresolved.
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