“Growing up in a Vietnamese American family, the outdoors to me was a ‘white’ space,” Danh recalls. “[Camping] was what white people did; it was not for people who ran through jungles at night to get onto a "shing boat and head into the South China Sea.”

- Binh Danh, from The Enigma of Belonging 

Binh Danh (MFA Stanford; BFA San Jose State University) emerged as an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war. His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on nineteenth-century photographic processes, applying them in an investigation of battlefield landscapes and contemporary memorials. A recent series of daguerreotypes celebrated the United States National Park system during its anniversary year.