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12.Vietnam, which only a few years ago was a backward country, where
tourists had to register with the police in every city and village and had to get a visa to stay there. And there were a great number of other formalities. It was not easy at all to be there as a photographer. Every
photo one had taken had to be developed and approved by the authorities before leaving the country, unless you took the risk of smuggling your material out of the country.
Life was quiet and Hanoi was just bicycles, hundreds of thousands of them. The system was definitely communistic. But underneath that surface just as in the economic statistics, you could feel that something was about to change. The government had, inspired by China, started an economic liberalisation, the “Doi Moi” policy.
Today, just a few years later, very much has changed, in fact too much to describe on my web-site. “The Honda-Dream Revolution” for example, that you can see on one of the photos. You can see the chaos on the photo but you cannot hear the noise of the horns of the motorbikes, nor can you smell the exhaust and neither can you feel what it is like to cross that street in Hanoi. Up in the mountains the beautiful rice-fields are still there, in the Halong-Bay the fishermen still live as before between the beautiful Halong Islands, and the floating markets and villages in the Mekong Delta.... I hope I have been able to convey to you a bit of the feeling of today’s Vietnam.
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