Based in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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Mai Nguyen Anh is a Vietnamese, part-time visual artist whose work blends observational and poetic documentary elements, inspired by personal significance and social paradoxes. His practices are driven by self-reflections on the world around him, fueled by the myriad Read moreof emotions and musings encountered in everyday existence. He developed his visual language through ongoing experiments with the photographic medium’s foundation, questioning its ability to walk on the edge of reality and fiction.

Nguyen Anh started out and worked as a photojournalist from 2012 to 2015 for AFP and VnExpress. In 2016, he was awarded a scholarship to the International Center of Photography in New York, where he completed the One-Year Creative Practices. His work has appeared in exhibitions, as well as publications such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail, among others.

Nguyen Anh is the recipient of the Open Category award for the inaugural Objectifs Documentary Award in 2018. He co-founded Matca, an online photography community in Vietnam in 2017.

Since 2021, Nguyen Anh has been working with the French Institute in Hanoi to curate PhotoHanoi, a biennial event dedicated to providing an official platform for showcasing the photographic works of both Vietnamese and international artists to local audiences.

Freelance journalist with more than 10 years experience as a reporter in the investigative field. Have collaborated with prestigious and nationwide newspapers and magazines such as El Universal (major Mexican newspaper), Playboy Magazine, El Mercurio (major Chilean newspaper) and co-coordinated the Read moreaward winning project: Masde72 (Part I and II), the two web reporting sites created to cover the massacre of immigrants in Tamaulipas, Mexico, one of the most important cases unveiled to understand the consequences and complexities of the violence in the country. Made by the internationally recognized journalist, Marcela Turati and the investigation team of Periodistas de a Pie with the support of the Latinamerican Journalism platform Connectas and the International Center For Journalists (ICFJ).
Currently living in Ha Noi, Vietnam where she covered the 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit for the news agency Market4News.

Carlota Torres Lliró is a multilingual journalist based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Experience in print and radio journalism, in both breaking news and more in-depth stories. Available for print and radio stories about Vietnam and neighboring countries, as well as to help scouting if you send your reporter Read moreto Hanoi.