A Walk With Chi

December 27th, 2009
Cho Lon Alley

Cho Lon Alley

I took a walk with Chi the other day in the Cho Lon area of Saigon.  Chi is my best friend in Vietnam.  I always love hanging out with her, and she likes to shoot film like I do now, so we had quite a bit of fun.  Cho Lon overlaps district 5 and district 6, and the name means “Big Market” in Vietnamese.  It’s what we Western folks refer to as “Chinatown”.  It’s interesting for a million different reasons, and there’s a million different things to take pictures of there, however on this day I mostly did portraits of people on the street. Read more »