This series follows Châu, a Vietnamese man living with severe physical deformities caused by Agent Orange. But the photographs do not seek sympathy, nor do they retell a tragedy. They trace the way he exists: quietly, stubbornly, and poetically , beyond the lines that once defined his fate.
Châu paints with his mouth, moves with his knees and elbows, and lives inside a body that never obeyed him. Yet his days unfold with a rare clarity: the intimacy of a cramped bathroom, the solitude of a staircase, the stillness of a hospital bed, the pulse of a street at night. Between these spaces, he creates a world of his own, a world held together by brushstrokes, breath, and a kind of light that comes from enduring.
This project is not about the weight of what was done to him, but the shape of what he makes from it. In Châu’s presence, the fragile becomes resilient, and the familiar becomes sacred. His path is neither heroic nor tragic; it is simply human and therefore, profoundly moving.