I had a chance to experience Ocean Vuong’s first-ever photo exhibition, SỐNG, which “arrives as a profound yet subtle revelation of what has been lingering beneath the soul-stirring use of language by an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist… Vuong has been a photographer for longer than he has been known to the world as a writer, a fact that subtly rearranges how we might understand both bodies of work. Rather than photography following literature, this image-based work appears as a parallel language that has been shaping his way of seeing and engaging with the world all along…”

Read my full review of the exhibition for Hot Coffee Conversations.