An-My Lê

An-My Lê was born in 1960 in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. In 1975, at the age of 15, Lê fled Vietnam with her family. They eventually settling in the United States as political refugees. Lê attended Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in 1981 and a Master of Science degree in 1985. Lê also earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University in 1993.

Lê’s photographs of landscapes transformed by war and other forms of military activity blur the boundaries between fact and fiction. Her carefully composed photographs are richly layered with meaning. Lê’s images combine the documentary and the conceptual, creating a neutral perspective that exposes the essential ambiguity of the medium of photography.