Had a great week of shooting last week. I based myself in Dalat at the supposedly haunted hotel that shall remain nameless, and spent eight hours or so a day bouncing around the back blocks and hills on the back of a motorbike.
Was the hotel indeed haunted? Well I didn't actually SEE a ghost, let alone photograph one, but every light in the room did, inexplicably, turn on at 4am one morning. You should try sleeping with one eye open for a week and see how your sense of humor changes!
The weather was cool, a blessed relief from Saigon, the scenery spine tinglingly spectacular and the people friendly and photogenic.
Most of the villages I photographed in were of the Koho ethnic minority who number about 166,000 of Vietnams total population of 90 million people, thus making them well and truly a minority. They are a good natured and friendly bunch.
Some portraits from the trip are below.
A road worker has a smoke. These guys were carving a road across a mountain, through granite, mostly by hand.
Koho woman.
An 80 year old Koho man "enjoys" a smoke.
Coffee plantation worker.
Coffee plantation workers take a lunch break.
An amazing 94 year old Koho woman.