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Traveling the world taking pictures of everyone and everything. And it's ALL beautiful.

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SAIGON, VIETNAM STREET ART: TEXTBOOK SOCIAL REALISM The main slogan: "Đảng gắn bó mật thiết với nhân dân, dựa vào nhân dân để xây dựng Đảng!"...

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: REFLECTING THE CITY

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: POSTCARDS FROM REAL LIFE

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: THE PARTY DECORATES

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: THE MONTH OF MAY IN FOOD

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SAIGON, VIETNAM: THIS WEEK IN COFFEE, TOWARDS THE END OF MAY

Ca Phe Da at Guta Coffee. Unfortunately, it had sugar in it. Since I’m leaving soon for a weeklong adventure in Cambodia, I needed to get some repair work done on my backpack. I headed to Bui Vien where a man and woman I’d become familiar with helped sew a patch more securely onto the bag. As I sat there waiting, they offered me tea and sweet potatoes simply because they enjoyed hearing me…

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: LOOKING UP

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: PROPAGANDA STATE MURAL

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SAIGON, VIETNAM STREET ART: PROPAGANDA ART

The first one was painted by university students from Đại Học Văn Lang in 2018 as part of Mùa Hè Xanh, the Green Summer campaign. Every year the government sends thousands of college kids into neighborhoods to clean, paint, and volunteer. It’s state-organized but the participation is real. The red sign reads “Công trình khu phố xanh sạch đẹp,” Green Clean Beautiful Neighborhood Project. The mural…

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: PROPAGANDA ART

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: HIP HOP SWAG

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: MANEKI NEKO, BECKONING CAT

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: THIS WEEK IN COFFEE

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SAIGON, VIETNAM: THIS DOG IS DYED

This is a dyed dog. Someone painted black spots, stripes on the legs and tail, and what look like drawn-on eyebrows onto this dog to make it look like a hyena. Sitting on a red plastic chair against a cracked concrete wall like it owns the place. This is someone turning their dog into a completely different animal. The eyebrows are the detail that kills me. Somebody sat down and gave their dog a…

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SAIGON, VIETNAM: THE ICONS

City Hall, 1908. Built as the Hôtel de Ville for the colonial administration. Designed by architect Gardès in French Renaissance style. After 1975 it became the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee headquarters. You can’t go inside. The Vietnamese flag flies where the French tricolor used to. Uncle Ho’s statue sits out front on Nguyen Hue, facing the river he never saw renamed after him. Hotel…

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: FOUR EYES by ALEX PAWSON

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SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: SMILING PEZ PAID A VISIT

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