Nhan Tran is a Vietnamese documentary author working across photography and cinema. Her long-term work follows women and communities navigating migration, labour, and belonging across Southeast Asia, observing lives shaped before they can be chosen — from highland girls entering adulthood too early to families living without legal recognition.
Working through extended relationships developed over years, she follows how uncertainty structures everyday decisions, care, and intimacy, moving between still and moving images to explore prolonged states of waiting and transition.
Her work has been commissioned and published by Le Monde, The Times, Associated Press, Licas News, and The Polis Project, among others.
She is a member of Women Photograph and a National Geographic Society grantee.
Based in Ho Chi Minh City, she is available for editorial and NGO assignments across Vietnam and Southeast Asia.