Every photographer’s work tells a story, and for the most talented, that body of images has a unifying character, a sense of how the artist sees the world and, by extension, who that shooter is. For West Seattle, Washington, resident Long Bach Nguyen, that world is one of contrasts—darkness and light, air and sand and sea, wild landscapes and urban geometry.
For years, Nguyen, who was born in South Vietnam and came to the United States in his childhood, has, as a professional landscape, aerial and travel photographer, captured the world from on high, amassing a stunning portfolio of images from around the world. But the subject of most of his work is the vast canvas that is Washington state, with its singular urban gem, Seattle, with its lights and…