Photographer Hoang Nhiem extends his interests to social issues and human influences on nature. In his photographs, nature is not just an landscape/object but a victim in a story that needs to be told.
“From Hà Giang to Trà Vinh, I capture resilient trees in their habitat. In my photographs, I use infrared technique to convey their beauty and strong vitality, despite the destruction caused by humanity in their path to ‘develop’ and find convenient comfort.”
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Landscape genre: “Landscape painting, the depiction of natural scenery in art. Landscape paintings may capture mountains, valleys, bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts and may or may not include man-made structures as well as people. Although paintings from the earliest ancient and Classical periods included natural scenic elements, landscape as an independent genre did not emerge in the Western tradition until the Renaissance in the 16th century. In the Eastern tradition, the genre can be traced back to 4th-century-CE China.” – Britannica.
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Phu Quoc, between mangroves and magical trees.
Located off the coast of southern Vietnam, Phu Quoc was at one time a place
for the exiled and imprisoned. Until recently, it took eight hours on a
merchant ship to reach the island from the mainland. This remoteness, though, was instrumental in
the island retaining most of its natural treasures.
For most of the people, its main attractions are its beaches and the sea,
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“an aesthestic moment’ of a timeless feeling of enlightened harmony as the poet’s nature and the environment are unified” – Kenneth Yasuda