{"id":804861,"date":"2026-08-06T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:12:11","slug":"acclaimed-author-ocean-vuong-turns-focus-to-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804861\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed author Ocean Vuong turns focus to photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Ocean Vuong is a MacArthur Fellowship winner and best-selling author, most recently of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/07\/23\/the-emperor-of-gladness-ocean-vuong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Emperor of Gladness<\/a>.&#8221; But he&#8217;s also a photographer; His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewadsworth.org\/explore\/upcoming-exhibitions\/matrix199\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first solo exhibition<\/a> opens at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Here &amp; Now&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/inside\/staff\/emiko-tamagawa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Emiko Tamagawa<\/a> got a preview and speaks with Vuong about his photography.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20190307_OV_NickyCountyFair_0018-1.jpg\"   alt=\"Ocean Vuong, &quot;Nicky after 12-hour shift,&quot; 2025. (Courtesy of Ocean Vuong)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Ocean Vuong, &#8220;Nicky after 12-hour shift,&#8221; 2025. (Courtesy of Ocean Vuong)<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20180530_OV_NickyNoho0013-2560x3200.jpg\"   alt=\"Ocean Vuong, &quot;Nicky crying,&quot; 2022. (Courtesy of Ocean Vuong)\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Ocean Vuong, &#8220;Nicky crying,&#8221; 2022. (Courtesy of Ocean Vuong)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on August 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ocean Vuong is a MacArthur Fellowship winner and best-selling author, most recently of &#8220;The Emperor of Gladness.&#8221; But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-804861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}