Photo Gallery – What I Saw Without Words

When You Didn’t Grow Up There, You See Differently

Because an adoptee doesn’t photograph like a tourist.
They search for traces in every image.

The photos you’ll see here aren’t made to sell a country.
They’re not taken to charm.
They’re not meant for Instagram.

They’re taken with a heart returning without knowing what it’s returning to.

📷 Ordinary alleys that made me cry
📷 Faces unaware they were being photographed
📷 Details that, to me, mean more than a landscape

What You’ll Find in This Gallery

📸 Photos taken in Vietnam, unfiltered and unstaged
👁 Glances, places, visual silences
🖼 Fragments of memory, for those who didn’t grow up here
🌿 Simple images, yet heavy with meaning

This Gallery Is My Personal Archive

I didn’t grow up with baby photos of myself.
I don’t have family memories in Vietnamese.
But today, I’m creating my own album.

These photos are the missing pages of my file.
They explain nothing. But they say everything.

How to Use This Gallery

👁 To feel what a return can stir
📤 To share an image that speaks without words
🧾 To accompany a text, testimony, or reflection
💬 To nourish your own journey, even if it has nothing to do with adoption