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Florentin Smarandache V I E T N A M REGAINING THE SMILE

Florentin Smarandache VIETNAM REGAINING THE SMILE

Pons asbl 5, Quai du Batelage, Bruxelles, Belgium Editor: Georgiana Antonescu

ISBN 978-1-59973-476-7

Florentin Smarandache

VIETNAM REGAINING THE SMILE Pons Editions Bruxelles, 2016

PHOTO, TEXT & TITLES by Florentin Smarandache.

© 2016 Florentin Smarandache. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including photocopying or using any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the copyright owner.


The streets of Hà Nội

5


Backstage view in Hà Nội

6


Overweight

7


The woman monger

8


People and flowers

9


White splendors

10


Youngsters by the river

11


The Emperor

12


Aside

13


Burgers and donuts

14


The bridge anchored in the sky

15


Boulevard

16


Low top view over a street in Hà Nội

17


Rice and birds

18


Grandeur

19


The bouquet

20


Garden of the city

21


Water blossom

22


Floral touch

23


Camouflage

24


Edges and ledges

25


Hồ Chí Minh city view

26


The tavern

27


Hôtel de Ville de Saïgon

28


Expo

29


Flowering smiles

30


Flag flower

31


Spilling color

32


Holiday attire

33


Invading white

34


Buddha smiling

35


Afloat

36


Funny face boat

37


In the land of the Nine Dragons

38


Woman in contemplation

39


The singer

40


Flowers and money

41


Beam crossing

42


Hungry howls

43


Bikes resting

44


The big hat

45


Explanation

46


Free nature

47


Dispersal

48


Under cover

49


Hit the road, Jack!

50


Intermission

51


The chaise

52


Homeward

53


Motorcycling

54


Night in Hồ Chí Minh city

55


Let there be lights!

56


Morning in Hồ Chí Minh city

57


Blue stripes

58


To work

59


Falling

60


A lull

61


Embarkation

62


Long waters

63


Back road

64


The big boss with long tail

65


Awaiting

66


Hiding

67


A boat on Mekong

68


Water path

69


Monkeys island

70


Strong roots

71


Perspective

72


People and motors

73


Vietnamse feast (I)

74


Vietnamse feast (II)

75


Vietnamse feast (III)

76


Vietnamse feast (IV)

77


Vietnamse feast (V)

78


Vietnamse feast (VI)

79


Vietnamse feast (VII)

80


Vietnamse feast (VIII)

81


Vietnamse feast (IX)

82


Vietnamse feast (X)

83


Vietnamse feast (XI)

84


Vietnamse feast (XII)

85


Vietnamse feast (XIII)

86


Vietnamse feast (XIV)

87


Vietnamse feast (XV)

88


Vietnamse feast (XVI)

89


Vietnamse feast (XVII)

90


Vietnamse feast (XVIII)

91


Vietnamse feast (XIX)

92


Vietnamse feast (XX)

93


Vietnamse feast (XXI)

94


Vietnamse feast (XXII)

95


Vietnamse feast (XXIII)

96


Vietnamse feast (XXIV)

97


Vietnamse feast (XXV)

98


Vietnamse feast (XXVI)

99


Market on wheels

100


The captive

101


A sip of smoke

102


Carrying spikes

103


Selling colors

104


A rest by the apartment building

105


The light at the end of the tunnel

106


Diurnal rhythms

107


Sinking or raising

108


The Mausoleum

109


Directions

110


Interrogative street end

111


The lesson

112


Lights and colors

113


Standing above

114


Buddha of the bus

115


Parking

116


Topicality

117


Vietnamese pottery

118


A fragment of a castle

119


The sign

120


Turrets in the woods

121


Silence by the city

122


Hydroponics

123


XIV

124


Building the future

125


Small things

126


Vietnamese underground

127


Snaking

128


Walkside

129


Sun umbrella

130


Vegetables

131


Fading out

132


Leaving Vietnam, dreaming back

133


The end of a journey, the beginning of a memory

134

This album is a photolog of a three-weeks-long scientific & touristic trip in Vietnam; a country that in the last century - surpassed wars and uncertainty and unrest, being nowadays in the midst of a new battle: that of regaining the smile. The brave nation of Vietnam proves it again and again, more and more: this battle is won every day.