Passage #14

Title : Passage #14 Artist : Eric Melzer Location : Phu Sen, Vietnam Year : 2009 Edition : 1/1 Size : 5616 x 3744 Using maps that had been hand drawn by a French engineer in the 1920s, a journalist and I rode motorcycles across central Vietnam in search of a dam and irrigation canals in the Ba River Valley that made it suitable as farmland. The most interesting part of this assignment for the New York Times was learning more about life under French rule through the eyes of the elderly locals we interviewed. Here we shared a light moment with an old farmer on on a street corner in Phu Sen, Vietnam. ‘Passage’ is my genesis NFT collection featuring two curated volumes of images that ...View all