Rice terraces and color graphics.
The most common and mass product on Earth is rice. The modern world and developed countries make more than a thousand different dishes from rice, and for them rice is not a way of survival, but rather a delicacy in cooking.
However, for most Asian countries, rice is the number one food source. Many families do not starve even today just because they have the opportunity to grow rice and feed it to their children.
Every year I organize photo expeditions to these amazing places to see and feel how and in what conditions the provincial people live, how they work on the terraces, and how they collect rice.
What surprised me the most was that there is still a lot of manual labor on the terraces of Vietnam. Most are women. Women perform heavy manual labor. They come to work on rice plantations with their children. Small children are right behind their mothers while they do hard work. That rice harvesting is hard work is shown by the fact that men and women, over time, can no longer straighten their backs. They continue to live their daily lives with their backs bent… This is how they walk, eat, rest, and go to bed like this.
I wanted to show how beautiful the rice terraces are, their patterns of colors and shapes are amazing. And all this beauty is created by human hands. Every day, cultivating the land by a millimeter and creating such beauty and harmony!
And the most incredible thing is that most Vietnamese people live below the poverty line, live in sheds, and next, right outside the doors, there is something that does not allow them to die from starvation – rice plantations. And they are happy, they never refused or strained when we photographed them. Every time we tried to thank the men, women and children when they gave us their attention for our photo.
You can see a project of black and white photography on the site – Images of the people of Vietnam.
https://mikhaliuk.com/images-of-people-of-vietnam/
And also join the photo tour:
https://mikhaliuk.com/en-vietnam-landscape-rice-terraces-people-photo-tour/
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