Time Passes
As I celebrated my birthday yesterday I was again reflecting on how rapidly time seems to be passing by now – the 12 months have just flown by since the last one which was spent in Sydney participating in a David Alan Harvey week long photography workshop (part of Sydney’s Head On Photo festival). Even crazier [...]
Muddy Cows
Back in October I spent a weekend in Chau Doc in the Mekong Delta to attend the annual An Giang Oxen Racing Festival, another one of those events that for many years I have wanted to attend but had not managed to. Also known as the Bay Nui Oxen (or Cow) Racing Festival, the 2012 [...]
Aarrgghh I did it again!
Well, I did it again – just over five months has passed since I last posted anything to this neglected website! When the same thing happened over the same period last year I promised to myself that it wouldn’t happen again, and wrote that I should be ashamed of myself. I don’t even know what [...]
Saigon in TRVL
TRVL is a fabulous online iPad magazine which publishes an issue each week on a particular destination, with each being heavy on high quality photography. Available for free download through the iTunes store, evidently TRVL was the first iPad exclusive magazine. In December 2011 TRVL was voted Best Digital Travel Magazine in the Digital Magazine Awards and [...]
A Little Bit Rio
Last Sunday evening the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Tet Trung Thu, was celebrated here in Saigon. Held on the 15th day of the 8th Lunar month, it is also known as the Lantern Festival, the Moon Festival or the Children’s Festival. The main focus of the festival here seems to revolve around Moon Cakes and Lanterns, [...]
Bac Ha Revisited
No, unfortunately I haven’t made another trip up to Bac Ha in Northern Vietnam lately, but at work I have just organized a photography group trip up there, my cousins arrive in Vietnam this week and will be travelling up there, and a photographer friend from Saigon is planning a trip there very soon and [...]
A Saigon Street
This is an image I made back in June, taken during a Saturday morning photographing on the streets of Saigon’s District 4. I don’t usually get over to that area of the city, or even seem to photograph much around Saigon at all these days, and I think this is something I need to try to change. [...]
Jump
Another photograph from my day trip to Can Gio district in late June, of some local lads jumping off a fishing boat into the ocean at Can Thanh port, as the sun was setting. It was one of those spontaneous moments that occasionally one is lucky to come across, with only enough time to quickly [...]
Pause…
Just sharing an image made back in late June during a day trip from Saigon to Can Gio district, which is about 50 kilometres from Saigon. The photo was taken from the roof of the local ferry at the end of the day, on the way back from visiting Thanh An Island. Who doesn’t love a [...]
Even Wetter
A quick post with one of the photographs taken a few days ago during my visit to Northern Laos. As I mentioned in my postcard entry it rained almost all day every day so local life was harder than normal to find, with most people trying to stay dry and sheltering indoors. However in this [...]
Getting Wet
Well the wet season is in full force here in Saigon which means that downpours invariably happen every time I am about to step outside, and especially when planning to go out shooting. Somehow every day during the wet season I seem to end up soaked to the bone – I really should have learnt [...]
Shooting Saigon
A few weeks ago I spent a Saturday morning photographing with Yan Lerval, a French photographer living here who runs photographic workshops in and around Saigon. Yan was running a half day workshop with three other students, and we headed over to District 4 nearby Xom Chieu local market to make some photographs. That morning [...]
Human Connections
‘Human Connections, Portraits of our shared humanity’ is a new collaborative photo book by the Visual Peacemakers Community now available through Blurb. In this book 39 photographers contributed photographs which were curated by cultural and world photographer Jeffrey Chapman, and I am excited that one of my photographs (shown above) was selected to be included amongst so many fine images by accomplished [...]
Head On
Sydney’s Head On Photo Festival was held for the third year in May 2012, and lays claim to be the world’s second largest photo festival. It features a wide range of photography across all genres with over 200 events at 100 venues throughout the city. Aside from traditional venues such as art galleries and museums, exhibitions and events [...]
The Window
In my previous blog post I mentioned that I spent a lot of time photographing at The Hotel Bondi during my recent visit. This is another image I made there one evening, and it was taken in the same window as the photograph from my last post. I was trying to shoot in a looser [...]
Quiet Nights at The Bondi
Still recovering and in ‘catch up mode’ after my trip to Australia but thought I would post one of the images that I made during my week long stay in Bondi, made at The Hotel Bondi one evening. Apart from a holiday, I was in town to attend a week long photography workshop with Magnum [...]
Saltfield Silhouettes
I came across these images as I was looking through an old external drive for something – for some reason I had not noticed them before. Perhaps they now caught my eye because I am just in more of a silhouette mood lately. The photographs are from June 2011 of ladies working in the salt [...]
Back into it…
Time for me to get back into it photographically! On the weekend will be heading off to Australia for two weeks, and I will be spending one week as a participant in an intensive photography workshop being given by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey. The workshop is part of Sydney’s annual Head On Photo Festival, [...]
Just a Girl
This photograph is one from the vault, from June 2011 – a teenage girl wearing her traditional costume as she looked out a doorway near the remote mountain pass known as ‘Heaven’s Gate’, on the journey from Ha Giang city to Dong Van in Northern Vietnam. While she may appear very ‘traditional’ at first glance, [...]
The Fan
Another quickie from my recent trip to New York, taken at Madison Square Garden during an exciting game between the Knicks and the Nets. I had taken my camera along to the game, just in case, however our seats were too far from the court to take any photographs with the only lens I had [...]
Winter Sun
A quick image from my visit to New York last month of a couple strolling nearby Times Square in the winter sunlight. Apart from the fact that it was unseasonably warm and sunny, I was paticularly loving the directional light and the long intense shadows that day. We don’t seem to get it as much [...]
Chasing Dragons
We are already one month into the Year of the Dragon, so I am a bit late with my Lunar New Year post this year. Although I worked right through the Tet period, I did make an afternoon excursion with a colleague over to Cholon (Chinatown) District one afternoon to try to photograph some of [...]
Taking a Break
It has been 5 months since I have posted anything to this site – I really should be ashamed of myself! The start of my absence from posting coincides with the start of the high season for tourists here which began on 1 October, and so it has been the busiest period of the year [...]
Under the Umbrella
Finally getting a chance to process some of my shots from the past month or so, now that I have returned to Saigon and my desktop computer is back in working order once again… thank goodness! This photograph is from my visit to Lao Cai Province last month – a Flower H’mong lady at Pha Long [...]
