New Travel Photography Album From The Roads Of Vietnam
January 26, 2008
People, cultural and travel photography in Vietnam is the theme of a new photo album (No 5) that has been added to this website.
These are literally travel photos because they were taken though windows of minibuses and a Mekong River tour boat.
These pictures are not meant to be “masterpieces” (it is easy to argue that none of my photos are) I took them mostly to keep myself entertained during trips between Vietnamese towns and during my border crossing into Cambodia.
But I believe the photos are somewhat educational, informative and interesting proving that even when others put away their cameras, true shutterbugs can still find a chance and excuse to snap away.
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being a single mom with 3 kids is really hard for me to save enough money to go back to visit my country(Vietnam).in coincidence I was checkout the website about seafood market I saw some photo you toook at saigon market.looking up your spectra is conducive to me go somewhat homesick embossed.thanks alot
I’m a Western-born Vietnamese so I’ve never been to VN before. Your photography was a window into the world I’ve yet experienced. Thanks :)
It was both enlightening and poignant to see the stark poverty that permeates the country. It kind of makes me feel less resentful towards some fresh-from-Vietnam people I know who seem so sly and double-faced. Coming from a country where only the cleverest and most cunning seem to rise from their poor upbringings, I’m beginning to understand why they act the way they do. They couldn’t have gotten by by being fully honest or unambitious. Monetary motives and being sycophantic in order to use people becomes almost necessary for survival in Vietnam unless one wishes to remain in the cycle of poverty. Or perhaps I’m just venting because I was one of the people that got used :P