Country: Germany 🇩🇪
Michael Nguyen is a Munich-based photo artist and visual poet known for turning the everyday into art. Described by ArchEyes Magazine as seeing the world through a "third eye," Nguyen captures small, overlooked details and gives the mundane a second look—a quality praised by major daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Moving away from commercial trends, his work spans experimental photography, photo paintings, architectural and street photography. In signature projects like By The Roadside, he explores the unexpected beauty of urban landscapes across Europe, focusing on aesthetic depth rather than traditional marketing shots.
By capturing subtle, miraculous details on random journeys through Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and beyond, Nguyen invites viewers to pause, look closer, and rediscover the world around them.
Nguyen's photographs are published in ARD, Auswärtiges Amt/Federal Foreign Office, BBC, BILD, Berliner Morgenpost, Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung, BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bloomberg, Capital, Courrier Japon, Das Parlament, Deutscher Bundestag, Deutschlandfunk, DW-Deutsche Welle, De Telegraaf, Economist, El Pais, FAZ, Fadaat Media/Qatar, Financial Times, Focus, Forbes, Frankfurter Rundschau, The Guardian, Goethe Institut, Helsingin Sanomat, Huffingtonpost, Initium Media/Singapore, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ITAR-TASS News/Moscow, Kleine Presse/Austria, Le Figaro, Libération, La Repubblica, Kathimerini/GR, MDR, MDR, The Mirror, Münchner Merkur, Nature Journal, N-TV, NBC News/New York, NDR, NZZ, ORF, Pravda, Pro7, ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland, RTL, Salzburger Nachrichten, Spiegel, Standard/Austria, Stern, SWR, SZ, T-Online News, TAZ, Tagesschau, The Times, The New York Times, Tagesspiegel/Berlin, TVP/Poland, Tages-Anzeiger, Wallstreet online, Die Welt, Die Zeit .....
AWARDS
2021: GĂĽnther-Klinge-Prize 2021 of the municipality of Gauting for special achievements in photography.
11.12.2020: BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards 2020 - "Antimatter” was awarded with Gold in Fine Art, Category Special Effects.
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08.09.2020: PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2020: "Silver" in Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced for "Lockdown"
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2.6.2020: MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards: The artwork “In the darkest hours” has been awarded MIFA Bronze 2020 in Category: Nature/Trees
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2.6.2020: MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards: The series “In unknown worlds of the subconscious” has been awarded MIFA Bronze 2020 in Category: Fine Art – Special Effects
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Award Fresh19 Bronze Reportage / London. The winning entries are from the album “The World and Everyone We Haven´t Known”. This is a recognition for Michael’s work of portraying human conditions in a very human and touching way.
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Award Fresh19 / London Carbon. Category Portraiture. “There are still shadows in and around me after the war in Afghanistan, but the warming lights of loved ones on my skin give hope….”
Moving away from commercial trends, his work spans experimental photography, photo paintings, architectural and street photography. In signature projects like By The Roadside, he explores the unexpected beauty of urban landscapes across Europe, focusing on aesthetic depth rather than traditional marketing shots.
By capturing subtle, miraculous details on random journeys through Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and beyond, Nguyen invites viewers to pause, look closer, and rediscover the world around them.
Nguyen's photographs are published in ARD, Auswärtiges Amt/Federal Foreign Office, BBC, BILD, Berliner Morgenpost, Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung, BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bloomberg, Capital, Courrier Japon, Das Parlament, Deutscher Bundestag, Deutschlandfunk, DW-Deutsche Welle, De Telegraaf, Economist, El Pais, FAZ, Fadaat Media/Qatar, Financial Times, Focus, Forbes, Frankfurter Rundschau, The Guardian, Goethe Institut, Helsingin Sanomat, Huffingtonpost, Initium Media/Singapore, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ITAR-TASS News/Moscow, Kleine Presse/Austria, Le Figaro, Libération, La Repubblica, Kathimerini/GR, MDR, MDR, The Mirror, Münchner Merkur, Nature Journal, N-TV, NBC News/New York, NDR, NZZ, ORF, Pravda, Pro7, ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland, RTL, Salzburger Nachrichten, Spiegel, Standard/Austria, Stern, SWR, SZ, T-Online News, TAZ, Tagesschau, The Times, The New York Times, Tagesspiegel/Berlin, TVP/Poland, Tages-Anzeiger, Wallstreet online, Die Welt, Die Zeit .....
AWARDS
2021: GĂĽnther-Klinge-Prize 2021 of the municipality of Gauting for special achievements in photography.
11.12.2020: BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards 2020 - "Antimatter” was awarded with Gold in Fine Art, Category Special Effects.
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08.09.2020: PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2020: "Silver" in Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced for "Lockdown"
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2.6.2020: MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards: The artwork “In the darkest hours” has been awarded MIFA Bronze 2020 in Category: Nature/Trees
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2.6.2020: MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards: The series “In unknown worlds of the subconscious” has been awarded MIFA Bronze 2020 in Category: Fine Art – Special Effects
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Award Fresh19 Bronze Reportage / London. The winning entries are from the album “The World and Everyone We Haven´t Known”. This is a recognition for Michael’s work of portraying human conditions in a very human and touching way.
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Award Fresh19 / London Carbon. Category Portraiture. “There are still shadows in and around me after the war in Afghanistan, but the warming lights of loved ones on my skin give hope….”