Catherine Karnow
After 25 years and many photoshoots in many locations across Vietnam, do you find yourself having any difficulties working with Vietnamese people?
I really didn’t have any trouble at all.
And it really took me a lot of effort to figure out how to explain why my work is excellent.
Female students at Vietnam Airlines’ aviation academy
She is best known for her portraits of General Giap.
The history of my relationship with Vietnam is directly related to General Vo Nguyen Giap.
Famous portrait of General Vo Nguyen Giap taken by Catherine
At that time in the 1990s, no one who left wanted to return to Vietnam.
She has been photographing Vietnam for the past 25 years.
It’s hard to say exactly how I feel.
However, it is also sad that what is familiar to me is gradually disappearing.
Saigon people wait for the ferry to return from the center to the suburbs
Cocacola landed in Vietnam (1994)
The model is preparing for designer Do Manh Cuong’s show
However, I find this does not change much in the spiritual relationship between me and Vietnam.
Or in 1999, I took a photo of the mixed-race child of an American veteran and his Vietnamese wife.
To put it briefly, my love for Vietnam is like a mother’s love.
Are you going to `tell` those magical stories in the upcoming exhibition?
We will have a large exhibition in Hanoi in early March. After finding a location in Hanoi, I see that the exhibition in Saigon does not need to be too big.
The exhibition Vietnam: 25 Years of Change introducing Catherine Karnow’s photos of Vietnam during the past 25 years took place in Hanoi on April 10, 2015 at Art Vietnam Gallery (24 Ly Quoc Su).
In Saigon, the exhibition will take place at Sao La center (01 Le Thi Hong Gam, District 1 – within the grounds of the City Museum of Fine Arts) on July 17, 2015 and at the Fine Arts Museum in October.
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