Nine Women is an exploration of immigrant middle-aged Vietnamese women in Berlin, Germany. The project depicts a release from social and economic repression gained through perseverance, re-identification and integration. Uprooted from both geographic and cultural environments, personal and aesthetic change is inevitable for immigrants.
Adapting to an environment that is itself in a period of transition is something that Vietnamese women have overcome in both Vietnam and Germany. Navigating divisive environments has both shaped and strengthened these women.
The project output is a 72-page self-published book that represents the strong and dignified Vietnamese women who migrated to Germany in search of opportunity or away from persecution. The struggle to adapt and identify with a new culture whilst maintaining personal identity and integrity is represented through cropped faces, focus on details, and via an interplay between the scale of the model and the culturally significant German architecture that they wander amongst.