Canh Nguyen

Canh Nguyen is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Seattle, WA. He received his BFA (2012) from Cornish College of the Arts and has exhibited his work in spaces including G. Gibson Gallery, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, and Photo Center NW. His work is in the permanent collections of the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and the Monsen Collection, among others. His moving images have been screened in film festivals around the world, including the Seattle International Film Festival and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. In 2015, Nguyen was Director of Photography for Even the Walls, an award-winning documentary on the redevelopment of Yesler Terrace, the nation's first integrated public housing project. Canh is currently photographing his first feature length documentary, Since I Been Down, a film about people freeing themselves in one of the worst places imaginable - prison.