Pham Huy Trung is an internationally acclaimed Vietnam-based photographer currently working independently on exclusive projects with prestigious organizations such as National Geographic, other global institutions, and private clients. He has been the Chairman of Socom Media for more than 11 years. He is also a judge of the Asia Pacific Stevie Awards for Corporate Communications/PR Publications & Video category and of the 35awards – International Photography Awards.

Pham Huy Trung graduated from Hanoi University of Technology in Vietnam in 2002 and attended Chalmers University in Sweden in 2005 to pursue a Masters of Science in Telecommunication. While studying in Sweden, although he was offered a job at a Japanese company, he chose to pursue his passion in photography when he found his old Nikon camera on his bookshelf. Trung relentlessly took pictures and shared them on the National Geographic’s Your Shot photography community, achieving the highest number of photos published in Vietnam within only two years. Since then, he has been dedicated to capturing the heritage of Vietnam from above.