about

JCDHIEN is a photographer and filmmaker whose work explores the poetic tension between image, time, and perception. Working across still and moving images, his practice is rooted in direct observation and lived experience, examining how images shaped through presence and duration can evoke states of suspension, memory, and quiet transformation rather than fixed narratives.

Moving away from conventional documentary approaches, Dhien works exclusively with images captured in real spaces and real time. His photographs and films are conceived as contemplative environments, where fragments of reality are gently reorganized—not fabricated—to reveal subtle emotional and temporal undercurrents. Architecture, landscape, and human traces recur as motifs, not as subjects to be described but as surfaces through which absence, presence, and duration can be felt.

In both photography and film, Dhien favors restraint and precision. His compositions are marked by careful framing, controlled movement, and an attentive use of natural light and shadow. Time plays a central role in his filmmaking, where slowness, repetition, and silence function as structural elements. Rather than directing the viewer through linear storytelling, his films invite sustained observation, allowing meaning to unfold gradually.

Dhien develops his projects as long-term investigations, often evolving across multiple mediums. This process-oriented approach creates a dialogue between stillness and motion, continuity and interruption, reflecting an ongoing interest in impermanence, spatial ambiguity, and the fragile boundary between the constructed and the organic.

For JC Dhien, photography and film are not tools of simulation but means of engaging with reality and questioning how images shape perception and experience. His works are conceived for exhibition, screening, and publication, and are intended to be encountered slowly—inviting reflection, attention, and presence rather than consumption.