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Ocean Vuong: Photograph First, Writer Second?

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Ocean Vuong: Photograph First, Writer Second?
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“Unlike writing, which is a vocation mired with maybes, the camera, for all of its complex mechanisms, can only say yes,” Ocean Vuong wrote. “Photography is, for me, a medium of unanimous affirmation.” The embrace of such affirmation is made manifest at CPW in Kingston, New York at the author’s first exhibition highlighting his visual practice: Ocean Vuong: Sống (until May 10, 2026). He joins a rarefied legacy of writers-turned-photographers, like the French queer icon Hervé Guibert or the Niger

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