Hanoi and Hue at night through the lens of French photographers

Hanoi and Hue at night through the lens of French photographers

With digital camera, French photographer Sebastien Laval has recorded true night photos in two tourist centers of Vietnam.

Sebastien Laval is a photographer from the French city of Poitiers who has been with Vietnam since the 1990s.

Laval entered the photographic profession at an early age, and was influenced by his grandfather.

When he first came to Vietnam in the early 1990s, he went to study the lives of ethnic minorities.

The oldest photo in Laval's photo collection was taken in December 2007. It was the first time he explored Hanoi streets with a digital camera.

He realized that another Hanoi is noisy, noisy as daily life.

It is a sparkling city with many colors created by the lights of streets, stars and the moon.

After many times to Vietnam, especially the two cities of Hanoi and Hue, he finished the picture "Hanoi 18h / 6h and Hue 18h / 6h", recorded the moments that he thickly captured.

In this photo series, the two tourist cities of Vietnam come up with small alleys, cold rail tracks in the night, shops covered with electric lights.

He shared the pictures using only light from the scene itself.

"I grew up in Hue, and I knew the city was like the palm of my hand. But the pictures of Sebastien gave me a completely new view of Hue" said Phan Trong Minh, managing director of a hotel in Hue.

"These photos will really inspire visitors so they can discover and feel Hanoi in a new way," said Franck Lafourcade, general manager of a hotel in Hanoi. share.