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Sapa (Leica)

  • Terrain

    Terrain (25)

    Sapa is in the mountainous northwest. They have one rice harvest per year. The H'mong, Dzao and Tay people live in the area. They are originally from Yunnan, Laos, and Tibet. The daily market is where people buy, sell, meet and eat. The woman embroider clothing with their particular ethnic colors and designs. Sa's mother and father. They live in a village outside Sapa. She weaves cloth and makes utilitarian clothing and handicrafts. He works in the fields and plays wonderful traditional music on an old wooden flute. (click on an image for slideshow)
     
  • Terra Firma

    Terra Firma (25)

    Sa, her daughters and mother. Women discuss fabrics. They will recycle good quality cloth into blankets. More cheap Chinese synthetic plastic "cloth" is now being woven into products like blankets, shirts, skirts and bags. Street stories. Rivers, mountains, interior of Sapa village kitchen. A weaver. Girls doing embroidery. Everyone is always making, doing, working.
     
  • Ground

    Ground (25)

    Only one annual rice harvest in Sapa. Now is the harvesting season. People cutting, threshing, drying, preparing rice for storage, shipment and a long cold winter. Embroidery design. Fields, mountains and burning off old rice stalks. Market and street images.
     
  • Elevation

    Elevation (25)

    Girls embroidery work near Cat-Cat waterfall. It will be used on hats, bags, purses and everyday clothing. To be worn, to be sold. People working, carrying rice bags, wood uphill. Market people. Plastic rice bags from Innedosia (sic). A pile of fancy plastic shoes for local Vietnamese weekend day trippers.
     
  • Soil

    Soil (26)

    Sapa valley landscape. Sa's father plays music. H'mong girls embroidery near Cat Cat waterfall. They were preparing for a TV production segment focusing on their culture. Street food vendor prepares Bo Bia, a simple rice-paper roll filled with onions, spices, chillies. Delicious. Waterfall, river and market. Rice production process. Little Li, the famous trekking guide. She speaks great English, and, like many others, cannot read. Nature is her home, her language. Nine years at the village school is it. Then it's time to work - selling or guiding.