Three deeply researched long-term projects; Immortality: Remnants of the Vietnam and American War, One Week’s Dead, and National Parks are compiled in a sumptuous two-volume slipcase. Hauntingly beautiful chlorophyll prints and daguerreotypes, printed with clarity and depth on dense black paper, animate a living history of war, refugee status, immigration and assimilation. Augmented by essays, poetry and historical material in an all-white soft-covered book, Danh has masterfully married intention with process as a means of transmigration. 

In this conversation, Binh discusses, among other things:

The power of a work of art

Public consciousness

Cultural identity 

Innovating chlorophyll prints

Receiving history

Art being activated by the viewer

Decoding the code of daguerreotypes

Negotiation of materials

Complicated stewardship of the land

Bringing light to dark places

A mobile darkroom called Louis