16th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
The Paper Lantern Seller

While traveling through Vietnam, I photographed Thanh Nhàn– surrounded by the paper lanterns she sells at one of the tourists craft shops– at “the Citadel”, an archeological site n Hue, Vietnam. Thanh told me her passion is to make paper flowers and for each of her creations, she writes an accompanying poem. I was struck by her sweetness, by the beauty of the flowers and poems she creates and by her determination to soon open her own shop selling her flowers and poems.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 03.2018
Date Uploaded: 08.2018
Photo Location: Hue, Vietnam
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Copyright: © Julia Cumes