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Blooming water hyacinth in Hoi An, Quang Nam province. All images © Pham Huy Trung

Photographer Pham Huy Trung continues to spotlight the agricultural rituals of his native Vietnam through aerial images.

Photographer Pham Huy Trung (previously) continues to spotlight the agricultural rituals of his native Vietnam through aerial images captured in vivid detail. Interested in annual harvests of grass, water hyacinths, and other crops tended to around the country, Pham often documents farmers working in the Mekong Delta, a wet coastal region that fosters a robust aquaculture.

Some of his most recent photos center on those gathering lush vegetation in the fields, while others take viewers to the next step in the production cycle, glimpsing the vibrant buckets and neatly packed rows of fish at the markets.[…]

Grass harvest, Mekong Delta

Fish harvest, Mekong Delta

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