Thien Nguyen is an automation engineer, a passionate diver, and an award-winning photographer, he’s also an Artisan of SONY Alpha based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Thien has a passion for travel & diving to capture aspects of life and natural world from above & below the surface, with the hope to use his imagery to inspire his communities & future generations to protect our incredible natural world and its wildlife.
Along with his travel and ocean photography, Thien is also working as manager for a French multinational corporation that specializes in digital automation and energy management.
Thien started his photography path by joining & learning from National Geographic’s photo community and achieved many Natgeo published on this platform. For upcoming years, he continued achieving many remarkable international photography awards & prizes:
– Winner Award of Ocean Photographer Of The Year 2024
– Top 10 global of Natural & Wildlife category, Sony World Photography Awards 2024
– Winner Award of Underwater Photography, 35AWARDS International Photography Awards 2023
– Winner Award of Ocean Geographic Pictures of the Year 2023
– Winner Award of Sony World Photography Awards 2023
– Winner Award of Marine Conservation – Underwater Photographer Of The Year 2022
– Winner Award of Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2022
– Winner Award of Siena International Photo Awards 2020
– Winner Award of Aerial Photography Awards 2020
– Winner Award of (PX3) Prix de la Photographie, Paris 2020
– Winner Award of 35AWARDS 2020
– Winner Award of The Descent Mission Underwater Photo Contest 2021 (iNaturalist & Garmin)
– Winner Award of Vietnam Art Photo Contest and Exhibition in 2020 & 2022
– Gold & Silver Awards of Epson International Pano Awards 2019 & 2020
– South-East Asian Selection of Sony World Photography Awards 2020
– Finalist of HIPA 2021-2022
– Thien’s works have been published & featured on National Geographic, World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), Oceanographic magazine, GEO magazine, Rotary magazine, Heritage magazine, Travellive magazine,… as well as news media CNN, BBC, Forbes, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Vnexpress…
Our work has been featured on several websites and in numerous national and international magazines.
Our work has been featured on several websites and in numerous national and international magazines.
Our work has been featured on several websites and in numerous national and international magazines.