Pipo Nguyen-Duy | Image via Oberlin College

Pipo Nguyen-duy, a celebrated photographer and well-respected photography professor, was found dead at the age of 64.

Nguyen-duy, a longtime photography professor at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and his 56-year-old wife Trần Thị Nam Phong were found shot to death in their off-campus home.

Nguyen-Duy migrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1975 as a political refugee. He became a highly respected figure at Oberlin College and earned recognition for his photography, becoming one of the few Vietnamese photographers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Nguyen-duy and his wife were discovered by law enforcement doing a welfare check at a home in Oberlin, Ohio, on Wednesday (October 28). Officers with the Oberlin Police Department were responding to a car fire in a parking lot that morning.

The photography professor’s 31-year-old son Daniel Jones, 31 was arrested by the Oberlin Police Department in connection with the deadly shooting.…