Home — Minh Trần · My Journey to the Negatives

I found the photographs the world forgot.

My name is Minh Trần. I'm a photographer, or at least I'm trying to be. This is the story of a rusted trunk, a shattered camera, and sixty-six negatives that waited fifty years for someone to find them.

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A found black-and-white negative held in its film mount: an eye gazing out from the emulsion. — The negative — an eye that waited fifty years to be developed.

Contents — Ten Exposures

01 Who I AmAbout me 02 The Assignment That Started EverythingThe Bronx assignment 03 The KeyFather Phúc 04 The TrunkThe discovery 05 The Last NegativeThe final frame 06 Why BlockchainWhy I minted the negatives 07 The Contact Sheet66 one-of-one photographs 08 ListenMy voice, in my own words