Documentary - Vietnam in Focus - Photo Tours and Workshops

Photography Style: Documentary

Vietnam in Focus run acclaimed photography tours throughout Vietnam and Indochina.
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Manual pictures that form a photo story come under this style. It is about a particular subject or a story that a photographer wants to highlight.

Tours that explore your selected Photography Style: Documentary

Hanoi city tour of Long Bien Market travel photography

Long Bien Sunrise

Capture the action at Hanoi’s wildest market

Welcome the day at the capital’s historic wholesale trading spot, as couriers from the provinces provide city sellers with stock. We’ll capture dawn breaking over Long Bien Bridge, before exploring the stalls below, offering endless opportunities for candid people photography. Along the way, we’ll craft a dramatic visual story of daily life at Hanoi’s oldest market.

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Ninh Binh - The boat man

Ninh Binh Explorer

Discover soaring mountains, authentic craft villages, and timeless country life

Get off the tourist trail and experience true lowland life in Ninh Binh province. We’ll enjoy some of the area’s most iconic activities, including a longboat ride at Tam Coc and a climb to Hang Mua Peak, but our main focus will be craft villages producing stonework and handbuilt ceramics, and images of classical rural life.

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Hanoi by Night - Long Bien Night Market

Hanoi by Night

Explore the excitement of Hanoi in low-light

Enjoy a captivating night photography tour where enthusiasts of all levels can hone their skills and capture the authentic vibe of Hanoi’s street life. We venture into Hanoi’s most famous century-old night market, where you’ll learn techniques for night photography with exciting compositions. We’ll be rubbing shoulders with the locals in the brightly-lit market, traders, couriers and customers barging between the stalls. There’s a great deal to discover, with exotic fruit stalls, workers unloading trucks, and a fish market with some very talkative traders. It all makes for a unique, evocative travel experience, offering a rich variety of images.

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Tho Ha Handicraft Village - Hanoi

Tho Ha Traditions

Follow the rice paper trail on the banks of the Red River

Step back in time at Tho Ha village, a traditional Red River community renowned for its ancient architecture and rice paper products. In charming backstreets, we’ll explore busy workshops, and photograph bamboo frames stacked with drying rice paper. Along the way, we’ll produce a stunning pictorial narrative of this unforgettable and authentically Vietnamese village.

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Portraits, Faces and people along the Opium Trail in Northern Vietnam

On the Opium Trail

Explore Vietnam’s True North from Sapa to Ha Giang, in the Footsteps of the Opium Traders

Trace the remnants of Vietnam’s historical opium trade through the mountains and tribal villages of Sapa, Hoang Su Phi and Ha Giang. You’ll encounter the Hmong, Dzao and Tay tribes, and visit colonial palaces and the scattered ruins of French forts, along the way creating a rich visual story of unique documentary travel images.

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Hai Van Pass

Hai Van Pass Horizons – Danang Photo Tour

Cross the coastal mountain pass, before exploring life at Lang Co Lagoon

Capture iconic landscapes from one of Vietnam’s most scenic spots, stopping off along the way to document real local life. At Lang Co Lagoon, we have an up close encounter with communities that have plied their fishing trade here for generations.

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Hanoi on the Tracks

On the Tracks

Get off the beaten tracks on Hanoi’s lesser-known train street

You’ll explore city life beside the rails, bustling alleyway markets, and the morning’s activities at Reunification Park. Along the way, you’ll create a rich photographic story of Vietnam’s capital as it wakes for the day. And yes – you’ll get ‘that’ shot of the Reunification Express squeezing between the houses.

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