Yen Duong is a Berlin-based photojournalist whose work tends to drift to quiet moments in everyday life.
Previously based extensively between Hanoi and Saigon before settling in Berlin, she has covered many critical stories throughout Vietnam, exploring themes from human trafficking, environmental and natural disasters, to the impact of rapid urbanization on marginalized communities. Yen also works as a journalist, producer and independent researcher, focusing mainly on photojournalism, migration and climate change issues.
She completed a hostile training course most recently in November 2021 via Pulitzer Center. She's a member of Women Photograph, Diversify Photo, and is sometimes doing concepts and program management at The Journal.
See more past published works here.
Contact 📍Berlin
yen.ddb@gmail.com
+49 176 556 91271 (phone/whatsapp)
INSTAGRAM
twitter @DdbYen
📨 Please email for CV & Commercial Portfolio inquiries
📸 Open and limited edition prints available exclusively via Hoa Ta Gallery, Ho Chi Minh city (shipping from Vietnam).
Selected past clients
The Smithsonian Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
The Atlantic
The Guardian
The Sydney Morning Herald
The New York Times
ProPublica
Rest of World
Al Jazeera
Die Zeit
Bloomberg
Reuters
ActionAid UK
International Federation of the Red Cross
UNICEF
Care International
Blink
Awards & Grants
- 2024 Dogma Collection's researching fund on Vietnamese Photojournalism during the American war in Vietnam
- 2020 Pulitzer Center's Southeast Asia Rainforest Journalism Fund (RFJ) grantee
- 2019 One World Media's New Voice Award, winner
- 2018 UK FPA's Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award, runner-up
- 2018 Women Photograph mentorship class of 2018-2019
- 2018 South-South Media Lab program funded by BMZ, photojournalist in residence, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 2016 Visiting fellowship at the Migration Research Center at Koç University, Istanbul
Selected Features, Interviews & Exhibitions
- 2025 Speaker & Panelist, Symposium: Sensing Photography: Vietnam & Vectors of Global Photography, at Fulbright University, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
- 2025 Interview, Alternative Imaginaries on Musée Magazine
- 2025 Research Article, Between Inertia and Amnesia: Making and Archiving War Images in Vietnam, on Dogma Collection
- 2023 Photobook, What we see: Women & Nonbinary perspectives through the lens ed. by Daniella Zalcman and Sara Ickow.
- 2023 Group Exhibition: Hoa Ta Photoshow, May Artspace, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
- 2022 Artist of The Obscura “The World Today” 10K+ NFT photo collection. Link.
- 2021 Group Exhibition, Women in Film and Photography: Inheritance, Chapel Gallery, Objectifs Center for Photography and Film, Singapore
- 2021 Interview, Behind the Story: Rethinking Reforestation in Vietnam from Community-Led Perspectives, Pulitzer Center
- 2021 Group Exhibition: Women by Women ActionAid UK, gallery@oxo, London
- 2021 Group exhibition: The Journal, f2 Photo Festival, Dortmund, Germany
- 2021 Group exhibition: Format, Photo Hanoi 21, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi
- 2021 ActionAid UK's Women by Women campaign
- 2021 Interview, Thomson Foundation's 2020 Annual Review
- 2020 Pandemic Diaries in "The year we lost" by Joe Pinsker, the Atlantic
- 2020 Photoville, The Journal: Documenting Covid-19, curated by Women Photograph x The Journal Collective, New York
- 2020 Group exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, The Journal: Documenting Covid-19, Athens
- 2020 Group exhibition, Festival de Fotografia de Paranapiacaba, The Journal: Documenting Covid-19, São Paulo
- 2020 Pandemic Diaries in Fotodemic
- 2020 Instructor, Thomson Foundation’s online course on Reporting on COVID-19
- 2019 Talent, Short doc on Role Models, Girl Rising x Sunsilk
- 2019 Espiga, A silent winter in Kashmir, Porto, Portugal
- 2018 Solo exhibition, The New Flower, Gobeze x Ice Addis, Addis Ababa
- 2018 Guest speaker in Global Journalist’s podcast, "Child Marriage in Southeast Asia"