Quyn Duong (b. 1992, Saigon, Vietnam) is a photographer, writer, filmmaker, and painter who creates portals through time and memory guided by intuition and emotion. Her latest work is an expression of chaos, documentation of mortality, and excavation for peace within the confines of American volatility and a global climate crisis. In Embodying a Night Watch, she recalls upon and imagines her father’s history as a Vietnam Veteran while deploying deep empathy as a means of reaching compassionate understanding. Paired with Trashed and Return to Earth, her works lay the groundwork to contemplate human impact upon the lived environment, and thus the reverse markings of destruction upon the internal landscape, as expressed through the Contemplations series.

In 1993 under the Orderly Departure Program established by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Duong emigrated to Tennessee where she remained until relocating to New York in 2014. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications from Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone (2024, 2023), Cultured (2023), i-D (2023), The Cut (2023, 2022, 2019), Condé Nast Traveller (2023), Teen Vogue (2019), Rangefinder (2019), BooooooomTV (2018), The New York Times (2017), and was the recipient of a Create Forever grant by FUJIFILM (2020). She lives and works in New York City.