L’Espace hosts photo exhibition on Vietnam

50 photos capturing Vietnamese moments taken for the past 20 years are being exhibited. Studying advertisement photography in Switzerland and working with papers such as Le Monde and Figaro as well as illustrating for several books about Vietnam, Nicolas Cornet has traveled on many roads in Vietnam and learned to look at the country in a familiar and simple way widely different from the alien angle often tinged with “colonist colors” of other Western photographers.

After taking a tour of the exhibition, veteran Vietnamese photographer Quang Phung commented that Nicolas Cornet’s photos had love and he had tried to assimilate himself into the life of the Vietnamese.

For instance, there are pictures of everyday life such as one of two girls leaning against each other during break time at a pearl processing factory. Their faces show that they are dreaming away their time to different directions. A photo captures two naked men playing chess in a temple in Hoi An.

Source: english.vietnamnet.vn

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