La capitale del Vietnam è a un bivio critico, precariamente bilanciato tra il suo passato e il suo presente, cercando di mantenere un certo senso di cultura e identità integrandolo nell'economia globale. Campi coltivati e campi di riso sono superati da nuove autostrade, grattacieli e aree industriali. I laghi e fiumi, per cui la città era un tempo conosciuta sono all’asciutto e soffrono di un costante aumento dei livelli di inquinamento. E gli agricoltori urbani che hanno contato sulle terre delle loro famiglie per generazioni sono stati lentamente buttati fuori dai loro campi in nome del progresso.
Farmer Nguyen Van Duoc stops for a cigarette on his field beneath Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi, Vietnam. Each harvest he grows over 200 pounds of soybeans to sell to tofu makers in the city, making less than US$60 a month to support his wife and four children.
A young migrant worker walks past a new construction project in the southern suburbs of Hanoi, Vietnam. What were once abundant rice fields on the outskirts of the capital are now being paved over and converted to new urban and industrial areas.
A portrait of Anh Tuan near his home on the banks of the Red River in Hanoi, Vietnam. Tuan recently spent time in jail and is having a hard time getting his life back in order, as many businesses are weary of hiring an ex-convict.
A young fisherman casts a line from a makeshift pier on West Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. West Lake is one of the capital
An elderly Vietnamese woman, Nguyen Thi Quen, poses for a portrait on her way to the temple in her village outside of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Farmer Nguyen Thi Hoa works her land beneath Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi, Vietnam. As pollution worsens on the land and in the nearby Red River, local farmers are finding it harder and harder to work the once-fertile fields.
Farmers pull roots from their fields on the banks of the Red River. These particular roots are used in traditional medicines and are sold to herbalists at markets in the capital’s center.
An aerial view of northern Vietnam, around the capital of Hanoi, with towns and rice fields spread out across the landscape.
A young migrant worker pours tar into a burgeoning construction site as another young man sweeps dust from the walkway on the southern outskirts of Hanoi. Construction sites such as these, all staffed by young migrant workers from the countryside, are taking over the once rural lands of the outer-capital.
A man walks along Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the Red River and a small island of farmlands and house boats spreading out to the horizon. Because of a prolonged dry season, the river is at its lowest level in over a century.
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Fonte" Aaron Joel Santos è cresciuto a New Orleans, Louisiana e si è laureato a San Francisco e Boston prima di trasferirsi in Vietnam nel 2007. Aaron in questi giorni, è un fotografo editoriale e documentarista con base di Hanoi e lavora per clienti del sud-est asiatico. Egli è rappresentato dalla meravigliosa macchina nelle immagini Invision & degli Stati Uniti in tutta Europa e Giappone. Il lavoro di Aaron è stato pubblicato in un grande numero di riviste e pubblicazioni, tra cui The Wall Street Journal e Travel + Leisure sud-est asiatico, come pure nelle gallerie in USA, Malesia e Vietnam. “
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