‘A WAVE BETWEEN SPRING’ EXCLUSIVE EDITORIAL BY ANH-KIỆT DƯƠNG

A Wave Between Springs Amsterdam is a city shaped by movement — of people, of stories, of time. Among these shifting tides is the quiet resilience of the Vietnamese community: not loud, not always visible, but deeply rooted. Many of our parents arrived here by boat, part of a wave of refugees who crossed oceans carrying both loss and hope. That wave didn’t end with them — it moves through us, too, shaping the way we create, remember and belong. “I am the wave between springs,” or “tôi là con sóng giữa nguồn.” The line is a reference from “Sóng” by poet Xuân Quỳnh, where sóng (wave) and nguồn (source) become metaphors for emotion and origin — restless, searching and always drawn back to where we began. It’s a rhythm that lives in us: in between, in motion and always returning. TEAM CREDITS: models JEWARIA LƯU AT PLATFORM AGENCY, YẾN-NHI LÊ AT GEM FACES, ANNE BAARSLAG, ĐĂNG-VŨ ĐẶNG, NHẬT-VŨ ĐẶNG & TESSA YẾN NGUYỄN photography ANH-KIỆT DƯƠNG AT WITMANS styling BENJAMIN AERTS hair LEANNE VAN NIEKERK makeup NGỌC-ANH NGUYỄN nails SOPHIE SOJUNG LEE art direction NGỌC-ANH NGUYỄN & YẾN-NHI LÊ videography GIANNA MAZZEO dop and cinematography SIMON MEESTERS photography assistant PIER VAN DEN ELSEN styling assistant JESSEY RODRIGUS makeup assistant ANASTASIIA MININA colour grading GARY GRADE music ‘TO DREAM ABOUT WATER’ by ANIMISTIC BELIEFS sound design WILLEM BIJLEVELD words by NGỌC-ANH NGUYỄN production TIMOTHY HOENSON editor TIMOTEJ LETONJA special thanks to JOHAN K