Vietnam

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

By: Nick Rains

Siesta time135mm ISO800 350th/F2.0Whilst my main form of photography is more traditional landscape work on large format and on film, I also relish the opportunity to work in foreign countries in a more reportage style. I recently had the good fortune to go to Vietnam for 10 days and saw it as a great opportunity to step back from my usual style; instead of the Australian Outback I would shoot street scenes and people.

I also made the decision to shoot entirely on my D60, even committing myself to taking no film at all and no back up film camera. I expected that the D60 would be an idea tool for such freeform work and in that respect I was not disappointed.

Vietnam, for those who have yet to visit, is a wonderful place to spend a week or so. I spent most of my time aroundDa Nang, in a little fishing village calledHoi An. I like to spend most of my time in one or two places and really get to know them, rather than be continually on the move and never really 'see...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.

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