Focusing on social structures, mainly human connections and relationships that exist in his multi-faceted consciousness, Le makes chromogenic prints through a performative approach towards portraiture—utilizing a combination of analog and digital photography. Being part participant and part observer, he explores the limbo space between an insider and an outsider of cultures, gender, and systems. Though his work is ever evolving in ideas and media-of-practice, he is presently fixated on: technology in relation to sub-communities, the collective formation of a New-American identity, and trending culture in mainstream and underground media. Born in Vietnam (1985) and developed in Orange County/Los Angeles, Le is currently living and producing work in LA and NYC.Tumblr (3.0; @phucle)http://phucle.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ac0d7a28982242793805d0fe828ef26d/tumblr_mh3nbay7jK1r6tqcko1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>screenshot from Forced Entry (video)</p> <p><a href="http://factorygirlnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/01/phuc-le-forced-entry.html">http://factorygirlnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/01/phuc-le-forced-entry.html</a></p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41306574538http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41306574538Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:18:00 -0800expedition:southwest<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/df72c27e9ea1cec80473a0c96d9e363e/tumblr_mh3mwpq8Nj1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305843469http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305843469Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:10:01 -0800untitled(mexicanstrawhat)<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/72683767463b80ab434d33bc0f69d8a9/tumblr_mh3mt47y0C1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305659505http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305659505Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:07:52 -0800untitled(salvatore2)grindrtests<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1c548d7c707ca1aec227a0e0cb2630e3/tumblr_mh3mqabppY1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Utah</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span><span></span><em>Expedition: Southwest</em> came out of the notion that a new cultural identity is able to establish without assimilating to an existing group of people.<span>  </span>For Le, the approval from the land holds more validity than the approval of any hegemonic group.<span>  </span>As he journey out on road-expeditions in hope of understanding the regional landmass that he calls home and creating myths in the manners of Darwin and Lewis & Clark, Le projects himself onto unyielding landscapes of the American southwest.</span></p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305519491http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305519491Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:06:10 -0800expedition:southwestutah<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2e8a845785dad6f7c08cba31512248a8/tumblr_mh3mlivJzs1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305281021http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305281021Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:03:18 -0800untitled(espiritsweater2)<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e695993f72b20e19a17897fbdc5f00f0/tumblr_mh3mgnLopE1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e6c29fbfdbb05650966fcc3b01d6b567/tumblr_mh3mgnLopE1r6tqcko2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>To produce <em>Grindr Tests</em>, Le uses Grindr—the first phone-app of its kind that utilizes GPS technology to locate gay men who are, by chance, online at the same time in close vicinity to one another. Discovering the app through friends who are active users, he is interested in opportunities that this technology may bring to a community living on the fringe.<span>  </span>With the approach of a fashion “test shoot”, Le puts himself in the position of both participant and observer as he flows in and out of his subject’s bubble.<span>  </span>The photographing session is almost always arranged for one to two hours in the late afternoon; and afterwards, a mini-date of sort continues either at a bar or a restaurant as compensation for the men’s cooperation (instead of monetary exchange).</span></p></p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305030525http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41305030525Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:00:23 -0800untitled(Alex)volcumstud07<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6fc7a3ccd3880fca9af8be8089123083/tumblr_mh3m6vaxBu1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/03a745b82cd7b76aeca1bfdda57bd299/tumblr_mh3m6vaxBu1r6tqcko2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41304535927http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41304535927Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:54:00 -0800phuc lecrossprocessed<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/786ab2ee90bb1b4f1a5585a72f4ee76f/tumblr_mh3m2v1QVg1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><em>Untitled</em> (blue knit sweater)<br/></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span>So Hip!</span></em> <span>is an ongoing photographic series spanning from 2007 to present.<span>  </span>In each photograph, Le dresses his father in an outfit from his own wardrobe in order to emulate youth fashion—mainly, ads and images from American Apparel, Vice Magazine, and similar sub-pop media.<span>  </span>The series evolved from commenting on cultural commodity to re-connecting with family and in its current state, he finds beauty in making these images as a chronological catalog of portraits, simultaneously, of both himself and his father.<span> <br/></span></span></p></p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41304334861http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41304334861Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:52:07 -0800so hip!blueknitsweater<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1c9ff1d0dc7d4bd691df299724a9ea88/tumblr_mh00v9WhuO1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41144972026http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41144972026Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:21:09 -0800NYC<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/615a0c6295758245cf47f476ced33103/tumblr_mh00rf1mx81r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41144773981http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41144773981Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:18:51 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/017044589f46c8eba9d0854f8d63d9a3/tumblr_mh00omkPd41r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Goldroom</p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41144627230http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/41144627230Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:17:10 -0800echoparkbeer+tequilacombo<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c23468e9d1e5ee65ec231789bade6b32/tumblr_mgvuj2wdM51r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Salvatore</p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40932908467http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40932908467Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:13:50 -0800grindrtests<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/477478118c1a1db2ff0a02053b2f4a59/tumblr_mgslw2QPqN1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Photographing Serenity</p> <p><a href="http://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/phuc-le-photographs-serenity/article_4490a987-c5e6-50ff-b903-9bd20a10e30a.html">http://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/phuc-le-photographs-serenity/article_4490a987-c5e6-50ff-b903-9bd20a10e30a.html</a></p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40794501472http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40794501472Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:14:26 -0800queenschronicleso hip!duck shoes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b634a46b94751318355cf90edcf34d66/tumblr_mgslnqKC7T1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>fromGrindr Tests</p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40794110731http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40794110731Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:09:26 -0800rowdyzebracaravaggio<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e327b1c3bd523e3e0b12205f0fa87f4e/tumblr_mgslg3cxLD1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Texas.</p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40793752265http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40793752265Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:04:51 -0800expedition:southwestnewamericanmyths<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/51a50b3fb13473ea620a16fe3141bb4e/tumblr_mgslb2vZ3k1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Phuc Le: Forced Entry opens at Flux Factory (friday 1/18/2013 6-8pm)</p> <p><a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/phuc-le-forced-entry/">http://www.fluxfactory.org/projects/phuc-le-forced-entry/</a></p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40793511070http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/40793511070Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:01:50 -0800forced entryGrindr testsphucleatfluxfactory<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbsrvcn2Qb1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Untitled</em> After (Daft Punk 2)</p> <p><a href="http://www.fluxfactory.org/artauction2012/2012/11/01/phuc-le/">http://www.fluxfactory.org/artauction2012/2012/11/01/phuc-le/</a></p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/33447231527http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/33447231527Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:35:00 -0700so hip!storm trooperphuc lefluxauction<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxya7ajxV1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/32314609769http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/32314609769Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:08:00 -0700mexican blanketmorningsatflux<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxy6hZ4Zf1r6tqcko2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxy6hZ4Zf1r6tqcko5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/32314520928http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/32314520928Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:06:00 -0700casual image makingbrooklynloft<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxq3zKwkt1r6tqcko1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxq3zKwkt1r6tqcko2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Entering the Void</p>http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/32304253639http://phucle.tumblr.com/post/32304253639Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:11:00 -0700cross-processedguppiewonderlandgreendreams