3rd Place winner
An Giang in floating water season
DESCRIPTION
This little boy looking for fish and snails in a floating rice field at An Giang. An Giang is a province of Vietnam that is heavily dependent on the water resources from Mekong River. In the season of floating watery, besides fishermen living by catching fish and aquatic resource to earn extra income. Floating watery also bringing alluvium to consolidate the soil more fertile for the next rice new rice season. But nowadays, the water level is not as high as before because the development of dams through many country along the Mekong River. This led to the land being heavily saline soil due to lack of water resources from the upstream of the Me Kong River. So in the future, if this situation continues, the fertile land may be dying out because farmers can not continue to grow rice or fisheries. AUTHOR
Dzung Tran (a.k.a Tran Minh Dung), is a landscape and architectural photographer based in Viet Nam. He has a passion to explore the world and document the connection between human with their environment during his journey.Dzung has won many international photography awards include Sony Word Photography, EPSON International Pano, Chromatic Photography, Fine-art Photography Award, 35 Photo Award .etc... He also an ambassador, speaker for big photographic brands in Viet Nam like Nisi, Sony, Vivo, .etc...
Website: www.dzungtranphotography.com