Documentary - Vietnam in Focus - Photo Tours and Workshops

Manual pictures that form a photo story come under this style. It is about a particular subject or a story that a photographer wants to highlight.

Tours that explore your selected Photography Style: Documentary

Tho Ha Handicraft Village - Hanoi

Tho Ha Traditions

Follow the rice paper trail on the banks of the Red River

Step back in time at Tho Ha village, a traditional Red River community renowned for its ancient architecture and rice paper products. In charming backstreets, we’ll explore busy workshops, and photograph bamboo frames stacked with drying rice paper. Along the way, we’ll produce a stunning pictorial narrative of this unforgettable and authentically Vietnamese village.

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Portraits, Faces and people along the Opium Trail in Northern Vietnam

On the Opium Trail

Explore Vietnam’s True North from Sapa to Ha Giang, in the Footsteps of the Opium Traders

Trace the remnants of Vietnam’s historical opium trade through the mountains and tribal villages of Sapa, Hoang Su Phi and Ha Giang. You’ll encounter the Hmong, Dzao and Tay tribes, and visit colonial palaces and the scattered ruins of French forts, along the opium trail we’ll create a rich visual story of unique documentary travel images.

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Hai Van Pass Photo Tour from Danang, Central Vietnam

Hai Van Pass Horizons

Cross the coastal mountain pass, before exploring life at Lang Co Lagoon

We head for the hills between Danang and Hue, on a photographic adventure through the clouds. Capture epic landscapes from one of Vietnam’s most breathtaking journeys, stopping off along the way to document authentic local life. At Lang Co Lagoon, we have an up close encounter with fishing communities that have plied their trade here for generations.

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Hanoi on the Tracks

On the Tracks

Get off the beaten tracks on Hanoi’s lesser-known train street

You’ll explore city life beside the rails, bustling alleyway markets, and the morning’s activities at Reunification Park. Along the way, you’ll create a rich photographic story of Vietnam’s capital as it wakes for the day. And yes – you’ll get ‘that’ shot of the Reunification Express squeezing between the houses.

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