throughout the weeks doing my disertation i have found Mitch Epstein to be most influentual. i have mainly focused on his book 'Vietnam: a book of changes'His book was made over the course of three years 1992 to 1995, Mitch said that on each trip, ‘’i did not recognise Hanoi streets I’d been down before,’’ and that, ‘’ the face of Hanoi was shifting at a miraculous rate as it opened its arms to the modern world.’’ This book contains a small amount of images considering the fact that he has summarised his six different trips over the three years. It leads me to question how he has selected them and why he has selected what he has. But what also draws me to his work is how he descibes the, 'pull' to go back to vietnam & how he was’wedded to the intense, bittersweet world i encountered there.’’
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