Mai Nguyen Anh
Mai Nguyen Anh is a Vietnamese, part-time photo artist whose work combines observational and poetic documentary elements to explore personal and social paradoxes. His practices are driven by self-reflections on the world around him, fuelled by the myriad of emotions and musings encountered in everyday existence. He developed his visual language through ongoing experiments with the photographic medium’s foundation, questioning its ability to walk on the edge of reality and fiction.
Nguyen Anh started out and worked as a photojournalist from 2012 to 2015 for AFP and VnExpress. In 2015, he was awarded a scholarship to the International Center of Photography in New York, where he completed the One-Year Creative Practices. His work has appeared in exhibitions, as well as publications such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail, among others.
In 2018, Nguyen Anh received the Open Category award at the inaugural Objectifs Documentary Award. He co-founded Matca, a community photography project in Vietnam in 2016. Since 2021, Nguyen Anh has collaborated with PhotoHanoi as a curator. The biennial photography event aims to create an official platform for presenting the works of Vietnamese and international artists to local audiences.
Program
Points of Relation
A pop-up photography reading room curated by Lê Nguyên Phương and Mai Nguyên Anh
May 4 – June 21, 2026
Rare Sea – 3 Dang Thi Nhu, Ben Thanh Ward