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H'mong Girl
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Day four of an eight day motorbike tour of the far northwest of Vietnam. At this point we'd been seeing far more hilltribe people(mostly Hmong and Thai) than Vietnamese. I really wanted to get some portraits of of them but their shyness and my timidness when taking pictures of people was a bad combination. We had left Dien Bien Phu that morning and were on HW 12 to Lai Chau when I stopped to try to ask some girls if I could take their picture(in terrible Vietnamese). I was immediately given four backs. I'm sure with my silver helmet and sunglasses, my height, and my obnoxiously loud Minsk motorbike spewing smoke as I pulled up, I looked like some kind of alien too them. I don't think they get much exposure to foreigners way out there.
Finally, Phil, our Vietnamese expert, suggests getting a drink in a shop so we can talk with the store owner and establish a bit of rapport with a local. Phil chatted with the woman who owned the store and ten minutes later we had a crowd of Hmong around us as we drink homemade beer from a Sprite bottle.
It was through Phil that I asked this girl if I could take her picture. I had to give her some money but it was well worth just watching her add things to her already intricate clothing and tie this mass of collected human hair to her own, then wrapping it around her head. She posed for me outside the store- stoic, proud and looking straight into the camera. |
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Très beau portrait. Très surprennant ces cheveux. Merci de nous faire partager les coutumes du vietnam.
Félicitations.
Bonsoir de France
Isabelle