“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
“It is through perception, largely visual and auditory, that we respond to the humanness that surrounds us.” - John Collier, Jr & Malcom Collier.
Images carry large amounts of data. This work is about observation: what is the data that we see? Each observation, however, is processed through layers and layers of interpretation: from the scene to my eyes to the camera onto the screen and into your eyes. How do we pierce through these images in order to see, to encounter, the humanity before our eyes?
Ai is a Vietnamese-born, Texas-bred image-maker + educator. She is the co-founder of TAPI Story and Director of Creativity for School of Slow Media.
EDUCATION & FELLOWSHIPS
Austin Film Society’s Doc Intensive for Feature Where the Sun Sets - May 2024
New Orleans Film Society Southern Producers Lab for Short Documentary Azule - May 2024
Tory Burch Foundation Entrepreneur Fellow Class of' ‘24
Austin Asian American Film Festival Jury July 2023
PBS | Reel South Hindsight 2.0 Fellow for Short Documentary Boca Chica - 2023
New York University Wagner School of Public Service | MPA 2014
University of Texas at Austin | BA in Anthropology & Sociology 2009