Tracy Dong (b. 1995, Vancouver, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist/photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her photography and writing practice predominantly seeks to preserve and contribute to the legacy of the Global South archive, and explores the ever-changing narrative of identity and community, enduring as a duality through multigenerational diasporic passage. With a 5+ year practice rooted in analogous methods of photography alongside poetry and experimentation of print alterations, her work acts as a protest against the oversaturated nature of digital images in an increasingly technologically advancing world. With a principal focus on intimate depictions of the marginalized subculture, she proposes subversion by deliberate documentation and radical resistance to oppressive systems by romantic palettes.

Her first monograph, “Tell Me About Saigon” was published in 2024 by Kris Graves Projects in New York City, and was featured in Huck Magazine and Dazed Magazine. She is currently studying visual storytelling practices at the International Center of Photography; screenwriting and producing for film at New York University, and is working on her second monograph of photographic and written work documenting her transition to Berlin after having lived in America for 12 years.

Exhibitions

Printed Matter Art Book Fair with Far-Near Magazine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, August 2023

“2 Years, 2 Weeks, 2 Hours”, Lunar New Year Exhibition, Land to Sea, Brooklyn, NY, February 2022

“Analog Today: Film Photography in the Modern World”, Downtown Arts Collective and Public Darkroom, Orlando, FL, February 2022

Publications

“Tell Me About Saigon”, 7x8.5” softcover monograph, 48 pages, First Edition, Kris Graves Projects, April 2024; available at collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Stanford Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Arcadia University, Bard College, Cleveland Museum of Art, Coastal Carolina University, Harvard University

“Anatomy of the Highly Ambitious Woman”, written film analysis, Polyester Zine, February 2024

“Las Calles”, photo essay, Street Photography Magazine, June 2022

“Unhyphenated”, photo essay, Polyester Zine, May 2022

Features

“Tell Me About Saigon” in “8 Photo Books for your Radar this Summer”, DAZED Magazine, June 2024

“An Intimate Portrait of Vietnam Half a Century After the War”, Huck Magazine, May 2024

“NYC Photo Community” Photographer of the Week, March 2022