Photography Portfolio

Thanh Nguyen

Photography Portfolio

Thanh Nguyen Photography

Cornell University Department of Architecture B.Arch 2018

Prepared for Craig Mains Olin Library, Access Service Center on 05/22/15

Photography plays an important role in my study of art and architecture. Through the cameras’ lens and the creation of composition, lighting, shadows, colors, etc., I have learned to observe, to construct and alter reality and to appreciate the stillness of life.

My diverse subjects of interest are demonstrated throughout this portfolio, from urban decay to infrastructure, from country life to abstract materiality.

The portfolio is a combination of digital and analog photography, as I attempt to bridge the distinction between the two media.

Left : (Top) Kansas City, MO - View to the city (Bottom) New Haven, CT - Yale College Master Livingroom

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Kansas City, MO - Warehouse Accidential composition

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Left: (Top) Kansas City, MO - Railroad Bridge

(Middle) Kansas City, MO - City skyline (Bottom) Kansas City, MO - Railroad system Right: Kansas City, MO - Highway Kansas City and its industrial presence, the trains and railroads became the muses of my camera in summer 2014. The opportunities to see these structures in decay, movement and mechanism greatly influence my thinking in architecture

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Saigon, Vietnam - Ba Pagoda A play of incense and light

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Phan Thiet, Vietnam - Fishermen Colors and the sea

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Kansas City, MO - Riverside Farmer Market Busy people and colorful goods

Saigon, Vietnam - Coconut Texture and contrast

Can Tho, Vietnam - Reflection The countrysides of Vietnam represent very much the harmony between nature and its human inhabitants

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Kansas City, MO - Abandoned train car Urban decay and its textures

Section Title

Project Title

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Kansas City, MO - Abandoned building

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Kansas City, MO - Abandoned building

Kansas City, MO - Abandoned building

Firstname Lastname

Kansas City, MO - High way Structures of light

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New Haven, CT - Beinecke Library Geometries and shadows

Left: Untitled 1 Right : (Top) Untitled 2 ( Middle Top) Untitled 3 (Middle Bottom) Untitled 4 ( Bottom) Untitled 5

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Light evoking Space A analog photography project highlighting the

possibility

of

creating

space

through

light and materials. Shooting minuscule and insignificant

objects

like

paper

or

plastic

sheets, I employed the clarity and subtlety of images produced by the film camera to create virtual space existing only on 2D prints.

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