Pipo Nguyen Duy: East Of Eden.

This catalogue features the work of Vietnamese photographer Pipo Nguyen-duy. The images illustrate Nguyen-duy’s ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large format color photographs. Nguyen-duy’s photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsh, his “reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world.” His photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people. His photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the “back-story” of the landscapes he photographed, while the work is now focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, his work “shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing–a land of multiple hues and conditions.” This catalogue features Pipo’s series East of Eden and includes an introduction by Hannah Frieser and an essay by Jennie Hirsh.