Photography
Contemporary Visual Research
Minimalism
Image Degradation & Digital Glitch
Black & White Photography
Urban Photography
ISCP Application — Portfolio
Photography Series — 2024
Eleven stolen moments.
Eleven faces of an icon fading away.
Between light and silence,
liberty disappears.
© She Liberty Six-20
All Rights Reserved — 2024
Portfolio submitted for
ISCP Application — New York
Thanh Ton Tran
(Six-20)
Photographer & Visual Artist
Orbe, Switzerland
photoretro.ch — [your email]
Artistic Practice
Photography
Contemporary Visual Research
Minimalism
Image Degradation & Digital Glitch
Black & White Photography
Urban Photography
Languages
French — Native
English — Basic working knowledge
Residency Application
Applicant, ISCP Residency Program
New York
Website
photoretro.ch
Profile
Self-taught photographer and visual artist based in Switzerland. His practice explores visual memory, image degradation, blur, digital disruption and contemporary forms of disappearance. Through photography and experimental image processes, he investigates the relationship between visibility, repetition and perception.
Selected Exhibitions
She Liberty
Scheduled exhibition
Centre Culturel Hessel, Orbe, Switzerland
Venise Imaginaire
Centre Culturel Hessel, Orbe, Switzerland
Online Exhibitions & Independent Projects
photoretro.ch
Artboxy International Virtual Exhibitions
Projects
She Liberty
Contemporary photographic research exploring the visual erosion of the Statue of Liberty through blur, fragmentation and repetition.
City Blur
Photographic exploration of urban speed, saturation and perceptual instability in New York City.
Venise Imaginaire
Visual reinterpretation of Venice through abstraction, memory and photographic transformation.
№ 01 / 11
The torch still resists.
Everything else has already vanished.
№ 02 / 11
The transmission is cut.
The statue no longer responds.
№ 03 / 11
Trapped in the light.
Standing at the edge of oblivion.
№ 04 / 11
She is no longer where we left her.
Did anyone see her leave?
№ 05 / 11
No explosion. No sound.
Just the white slowly closing in.
№ 06 / 11
She was always there.
Or perhaps never.
№ 07 / 11
She turns around.
The bird has already gone.
№ 08 / 11
The signal fades.
Liberty drowns in her own frequencies.
№ 09 / 11
She is there, behind the lines.
But for how much longer?
№ 10 / 11
She no longer looks.
A free bird passes by. She stays.
№ 11 / 11
Pushed to the edge of the frame.
One breath of white would erase her completely.
— End of Series —
Photography is not proof.
It is a trace.
The image becomes disappearance.
Architecture becomes unstable memory.
Silence replaces evidence.
There is no subject.
Only traces.
© She Liberty Six-20 — All Rights Reserved — 2024
Portfolio submitted for ISCP Application — New York
PHOTORETRO.CH — Orbe, Switzerland