URBANISTS PARTY: A trio of Brazilian samba dancers performed for a crowd of a few hundred people at San Pedro Square Market on Thursday night, which certainly ranks as the most original way I’ve seen to grab a big crowd’s attention. The show runs through July 28, and a portion of the proceeds from the sales of photographs will be dedicated to two organizations that help children internationally, San Francisco-based BeCause and Help Kenyan Children Survive & Thrive Inc. He last visited Vietnam in 2011 - “It’s changed a lot,” he says - and plans to return next year to begin work on a book. Library,” said Nguyen, 34, who arrived in the United States when he was 10. And I’m very lucky to have this opportunity from the Martin Luther King Jr. Nguyen said he was very moved by the reaction his photographs got from visitors at the exhibition’s opening reception June 25. There are hyper-real digital images of two truly American locales - the garish carnival of Las Vegas and the beautiful vistas of Yosemite National Park. Then the images shift to the United States, with striking pictures of San Jose City Hall, the San Francisco skyline, the Bay Bridge and the coast of Monterey Bay. Indeed, walking through the collection of nearly 40 photographs is like taking a journey, starting with the people and life of Vietnam. “It is a rich, colorful portrayal of my heritage, my identity through the lens of a camera.” “This exhibit expresses the beauty of Vietnam and the merging of my culture with the American culture,” Nguyen said in the exhibition’s introduction. The exhibition is called “Emerging in America,” and his images capture life and culture in both Vietnam and the United States. Main Library’s fifth-floor Cultural Heritage Center. An exhibition of his photographs is on display this month at the Dr. But America - and American culture - is as much about where we came from as where we are now.Īnd that brings me to Andy Nguyen, a San Jose State art and photography student and Vietnamese immigrant. It’s Independence Day weekend, so we’re all breaking out our star-spangled tank tops and getting ready for barbecues and fireworks.
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