Digital print on Kodak Endura paper.

Statement

After a long time being in difficulty in the post-war period, Vietnamese’s life just became prosperous after the open-door policy in the 80s. Profusely investments form international companies created a number of opportunities for people who want to earn money and make their life better. However, there was a reversed side as creating the material tendency in part of the community, which is easy to understand as human beings after a long time in difficulty.

With that tendency in-mind, and along with some easy ways of getting money, people become over ambitious about being prosperous, unlimited. It blears human eyes!

That’s the reason I made the collection named Dollar Man, to reflect my worry about a material society – in which everything was guided by money. The photographer, who is also my friend, captured the “process” when I started sticking the first “ghost dollar”, sheet by sheet, until they covered all my face and I couldn’t breath.