a lucid dream - Limited Edition Photo Book, Emilie Nguyen

Some dreams never fade away. They linger, like memories etched in time, blurring the lines between what has been and what could have been.

This is a collection of moments suspended between reality and illusion, an intimate journey through the spaces where dreams and memories merge.

I’ve spent much of my life in search of meaning, often grappling with my own emotions, trying to capture them in a way that makes sense. But sometimes, life doesn’t make sense. And that's okay. These images come from a place of longing, from a desire to find something real in a world that feels more illusion than reality.

For years, I tried to make sense of the things that lingered in my mind—emotions that felt too big to be understood, memories too distant to be touched, moments too fleeting to hold on to. And in that process, I realized that the search itself is what matters most. The feeling of being lost in the search, of reaching into the unknown, is where we find ourselves.

Perhaps these pages will echo your own dreams. Perhaps they will reawaken within you memories that have never existed.