The view from above offers patterns and geometries that are impossible to grasp with the naked eye, the lined boats and bundles of freshly cut grasses seem set up as if in a theater set, instead they are the result of customs passed down each year.
In fact, the aerial series is a testament to human activities along the rivers and in the fields of the Asian nation, showing both a record of anthropological value and the poetic beauty of nature’s colors.
Like a bird’s flight, photographer Pham Huy Trung flew over Vietnam during the season when grass, tea plants and flowers have been harvested for centuries, showing the beauty of the bond between man and nature.
The candid look of the photo-documentary series is a way to unify judgment and experience on an event that was perhaps the first major phenomenon of the globalized world. Through the change of context immortalized in Nicoco’s photographs, the effects of a social change that has also affected Europe but to a different degree than in China are told. The shots are a chronological journey culminating in newfound freedom and the barriers giving way to open streets and street banquets. The documentary approach is the same as the first series made by the artist and focused on the 2020 lockdown, published on Collater.al magazine two years ago. A small mirror on the world that nevertheless encompassed and well described the essence of a metropolis like Shanghai. Photographer Nicoco throughout these weeks chose to chronicle what she saw from her home. Nine weeks later, on June 1st, the city reopened. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.On March 27, local authorities announced a second phase of lockdown for Shanghai and its 26 million inhabitants. Follow the instructions for disabling the ad blocker on the site you’re viewing.You may have more than one ad-blocker installed. You’ll usually find this icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser.When it turns gray, click the refresh icon that has appeared next to it or click the button below to continue.