Fading Memories
Fading Memories (Những Ký Ức Phai Mờ) unfolds as an intimate photographic inquiry into the fragile terrain of family, memory, and reconciliation. Situated between personal archive and artistic reconstruction, the book traces photographer Fuong’s attempt to mend a quiet but profound rupture with his father, one shaped by differing relationships to the medium itself.
Where the parents’ practice was rooted in commercial photography, the son’s pursuit of photography as an expressive, subjective language created both distance and tension.
As noted by Jean-Luc A. Fournier, it is only through the passing of the mother previously explored in When I miss you Má, that the necessity for reconnection emerges.
Photography, once a site of division, becomes the very means through which father and son rediscover a shared ground. In this sense, Fading Memories is less about resolution than it is about the act of return: to images, to absence, and to what remains unspoken.
The work moves fluidly between documentary fragments and constructed memory, resisting the idea of photography as fixed truth. Instead, Fuong embraces its instability where recollection blurs into imagination, and images become vessels for both presence and loss. The result is a deeply affective body of work that invites viewers to inhabit the emotional textures of grief, distance, and fragile reconciliation.
Who is it for
This book is for readers attuned to the poetics of photography, those interested in the intersections of image making, memory, and personal narrative. It will resonate with artists, photographers, and readers of photobooks who are drawn to themes of family, loss, and the shifting nature of truth within visual storytelling. More broadly, it speaks to anyone who has experienced the complexities of familial relationships, and the quiet, often unfinished process of reconnecting across time.
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Language: English, Vietnamese, French
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 230 x 175mm | 490g
Publication Year: 2025 | First Edition of 400
ISBN: 978-604-494-697-9
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