Douglas Phan is what the photographer goes by in the United States. His real name is Phan Tien Dung and he is from Hanoi Vietnam. Douglas Phan is currently 19 years old and is a student at Brigham Young University - Idaho.

Douglas started to learn about photography in COMM130 (Visual Media) and FDCA101 (Foundation Humanities) at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Spring Semester 2014 and that is how he got started in photography. In the fall of 2014, he flew back home, to Vietnam to practice his photography skills. He came back to school in the United States in Winter Semester 2015 and this photobook was a result of his Digital Imaging class (COMM300), taught by Caryn Esplin, an extraordinary photographer, teacher, and mentor at BYU - Idaho.