A Portrait of Vietnam

After a long period of isolation, Vietnam has begun to open its doors to the rest of the world. The nation has been experiencing an internal liberalization which is causing dramatic changes in economic, social and artistic spheres. Focusing his camera on the daily lives of ordinary people, Lou Dematteis documents a vibrant, rapidly-changing country of over 72 million people. Photojournalist Dematteis took the photographs in this collection on trips to Vietnam from 1992 to 1995. He chose to ...