Singapore Marina Bay 360 aerial view

Just posted on my website a 360 aerial view of Singapore Marina Bay I shot last month while spending a bit of time in this amazing city.

Vietnam Documentary Photography | 36 streets of Hanoi

Today I wanted to share some images that are not from a recent assignment but as this project was quite interesting and somehow challenging I thought this would worth a blog post.

A while back I was assigned by Toulouse-Hanoi City Hall co-op to create a set of pictures for the Center of Cultural Exchange of the Old Quarter. The goal of this project was to depict the traditional activities of the 36 streets of Hanoi.
As said above, this project was quite challenging because the old town of Hanoi is a magical organized chaos but with traffic, motorbikes parked on sidewalks, and overall hectic activities, it gets really hard to have a clean shot. It needs patience, a lot.
Other challenge I had to face is that people, well, most of them are kind of pissed by tourism and I can definitely understand that. How would the majority of us would response if on a daily basis, hundreds of happy fellas were pointing at our face a camera to take pictures they find "exotic" ? not very kindly I think.
I had contacts of people aware about the project and so those places visited were the easy ones. But for most of it, things needed to be done on the fly. And here again it taught me patience, as I had to show myself, once, twice, even more sometimes, get a bit pushy trying to create an interaction speaking in Vietnamese with residents.
At the end things went the way I wanted and I'm pretty happy with this set of images that remain as a permanent collection in the museum.

Here are some of my personal picks

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Creative photography technique of double exposure

Wanted to publish today some double exposure frames I shot in Bangkok. While the same rendering is quite easy now to achieve with photoshop, I just wanted to point that the following images have been shot the traditional way with an analog camera ;-)

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Vietnam NGO Photography | Habitat for Humanity

Few images I produced a while back for NGO Habitat for Humanity Vietnam. Shots were taken in Hoa Binh Province and the goal was to overall document daily life improvements of low-income families benefiting of a program focused on building safe and decent homes and on a program to improve access to safe sanitation and clean water.

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Vietnam Travel Photography

Black and white portrait of an old Vietnamese woman in Cao Bang Province, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

This old lady was carrying her grandson on her back and while I was trying to capture limestone landscape behind I couldn't resist to take a portrait of her. She had such a soulful face...

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Dreamlike Landscape

Lone tree along the road DT154 in Muong Khuong District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

For those who have been traveling to Vietnam, you probably know that the best way to visit this country is by motorbike.
Riding along this road, the DT154, is gorgeous and plus, this is an absolute non touristic which will make you feel you really go off the beaten tracks. If you're about to travel to Vietnam and want more information about this motorbike itinerary, you can check Vietnam Coracle a really useful blog written by an expat that extensively traveled on a bike the roads of this country.

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