This 1986 photo of a newspaper stall at 222 Hang Bong street is among 26 of Crawford’s street photographs being displayed at the “Hanoi 1985-2015 In The Years of Forgetting” exhibition at 14 Phan Huy Ich street and “Then and Now, Hanoi Streets in Transition” exhibition at 2 Hang Bun street.
The events are organized by Manzi Art Space and Art Vietnam Salon Gallery, and are open from April 26 to May 20.
Crawford was one of the first western photographers to gain access after the war to what was North Vietnam. He first came to Hanoi in 1985 with a group of American filmmakers and veterans, and kept returning times after that.
During his stays he documented street life to record postwar changes and developments in the city. His photographs have been exhibited in the US and Vietnam, and were included in the “Hanoi Streets 1985-2015: In the Years of Forgetting” photobook published in 2018.
