An-My Lê

Like Richard Renaldi, An-My Lê uses an old wooden film camera, which she identifies as a Deardoff. She says it forces her to take her time and be more particular with her photographs. She mainly focuses on military and landscape photography, claiming that she wants to address the militarized world and show a less political view of the armed forces. An-My Lê says that she chooses to photograph in black and white because she is more interested in the shadows created by the drawing of the landscape and that there is a less clear landscape in color. Despite this, she says she isn’t concerned with dramatic lighting or contrast. Her photos intentionally don’t really say anything political and you its unclear what her stance is on anything. She says that this ambiguity is intentional and that her goal is not necessarily to say anything negative or positive about the military.