Born in 1995 in Hanoi, Vietnam, as a self-taught art practitioner, Tran Minh Chau practices photography as a method of studying the concept of “realism.” The camera acts both as the recorder of the “real” world and the mirror reflecting the photographer’s perception; thereby, a photograph is an offspring of both, a display of manipulated reality. Taking full advantage of that approach, Tran Minh Chau offers her own sense of “realism,” which happens to reflect more of the truth to her mind than what the outer world offers. In order to gain more transparency, Chau stripped her creative process of complicated equipment to maximize the time for observation and imagination, and now she creates by simply using her smartphone—the bridge of inner and outer worlds is now as thin as ever.

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