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Hanoi Isolation

1/4/2020

 
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Wednesday 1st April 2020 at midnight. That's when Hanoi and all other localities in Vietnam entered a more stringent lockdown-like social distancing phase. The idea is that each family isolates itself from other families, one village from other villages, one province from other provinces.

​In the week or so leading up to that moment, I decided to take my camera out a few more times to document the neighborhood where I live. The goal was to finally make some of the photos I'd visualized many times before. These buildings, streets and alleys are a familiar sight. I walk and bike around this area on a daily basis. I knew where to go and what to do to get the images I had in my mind.

While my Hanoi photo project, consisting of Hanoi Skin, Under The Skin and Hanoi Reflection, is actually complete, I consider the photos in this journal post as an unforeseen addendum to that project. 
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Shawn link
13/1/2021 23:30:50

Greetings Wouter,

Wonderful work. Very similar feel to your long exposures that I used during a thesis project. I would love to start a conversation about your experiences. My project was done during 2011 in Miami, FL. I think there might be an interesting discussion about the sense of time and lack of people in our images by contracting your images created during the pandemic and mine during a previous period of "normal."

Look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Best Wishes,

Shawn
https://www.shawnclarkphoto.com/uh-kyoo-myuh-ley-shuh-n


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