Street Category
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Follow The Light

The lights on the step formed a pathway to the top. As the light approaches the higher step, the pathway becomes narrower, whicheventually leads to the destination.

Hao Sy Phuong is an apartment complex created by Chinese people in Cho Lon area. After more than one hundred years, Hao Sy Phuong has been associated with the formation and becomes an indispensable part of Saigon. Even though the building has signs of deterioration and is in the clearance part of the city, the historical values of Hao Sy Phuong are timeless and had been captured in every photo. Most people pictured here seems to project a sense of serenity and belonging right where they are.

The stairs, just a simple senseless object, are actual the connection to the thread of the stories for the people who live here. Unlike the mode before they get into their door. Then, one day when you have a chance to look back, every steps, every stair are in your memory and that silent staircase, also contains a lot of thoughts. The older we get, the more we pay attention to the past. So, where will their lives go if this staircase is no longer available, and what if Hao Sy Phuong will be replaced? Will the beautiful traditional culture of this place still exists or will it forever be in the memory?

This photo was captured in ChoLon-Saigon-Vietnam, in May 2020.

In A Border Class

Children in Pho Cao, Ha Giang - the Northeast highland region of Viet Nam, sharing border with China - were learning in the classroom made of temporary soil and partitions made of nylon panels. They had to walk long distances to attend school. Specially, their teachers had to hike 100km slippery trails a day to go to school. I hope I have more oppotunities to tell these stories by images in the wold.

This photo was captured in Ha Giang - Vietnam, in May 2019.

Morning Routine

The morning of adults resident at Hao Sy Phuong is leisurely sitting in coffee with neighbors, confiding, discussing business or simply starting a new working day. Perhaps, it is difficult to capture these images in the next few years. But old, or outdated, never equals the end of value. And the story of each person in the photo, will motivate the future generations.

Hao Sy Phuong is an apartment complex created by Chinese people in Cho Lon area. After more than one hundred years, Hao Sy Phuong has been associated with the formation and becomes an indispensable part of Saigon. Even though the building has signs of deterioration and is in the clearance part of the city, the historical values of Hao Sy Phuong are timeless and had been captured in every photo.Most people pictured here seems to project a sense of serenity and belonging right where they are.

This photo was captured in Cholon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in May 2020.

Daily Morning

A daily morning in an alleyway of an ancient apartment building.The residents of Chinatown do their daily routine: go to work, have their breakfast, drinking coffee . An alley cafe is located next to the stairs in an old Chinese apartment living in ChoLon, Vietnam.