The photos of Sapa, a hilltop town located in Lao Cai Province, capture the area’s fascinating landscapes and the culture of the H’Mong, Dao, Tay, Day, Kinh and Xa Pho ethnic minorities who live in the region.

Yellow-terraced fields at harvest time, spring peach blossoms, snow on tree branches and grass, young smiling girls, festivals and colourful costumes are all vividly depicted.
Loc has also focused his lens on the red-headed crane, a rare species of bird living in Tram Chim National Park in the Dong Thap Province in the Mekong Delta.

Proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to the Nguyen Dinh Chieu School for the Blind Children in HCMC, and the photos will be presented to the Lao Cai Museum.

Minh Loc (Nguyen Minh Loc) was born in 1937 in Dong Thap’s Cao Lanh District, and is a member of the Vietnam Artistic Photographers’ Association.

Since 1975, he has participated in 49 solo exhibitions. He won first prize in the Moscow News Contest in 1968, the silver medal in the Iraq Photo Contest organized by the International Journalists Association in 1978, and the grand prix from the Trade Union Council of the Soviet Union in 1978.

In 1990, he received a prize for excellence from the Red Cross and Red Crescent of the Soviet Union.