I love photography just because I can't draw https://journals.worldnomads.com/namlongnguyen/ Mon, 6 Apr 2026 00:54:31 GMT World Nomads Adventures "Give our children a hope to grow up to be healthy normal people" is the message that I want to give you with these photos of children in Thuy An orphanage in Vietnam. Taking street-life photo of people, especially of children is my favorite subject. Reading the wish list for Christmas, I never forget a simple wish to have shampoo and shower cream from 12 years old boy and I urged to go to Thuy An to make a documentary about children's lives here. It was the first times I took picture of handicapped children who are the victims of dioxin. Through this series of children photos, I tried to make you understand not only about their lives, pain, difficulties but also their hopes, spirit and energy in social re-integration. Personally, photography is my passion because it helps me to draw the way I see the world and it really change my life. After coming back from Thuy An, I made some documentaries about disable children in Thuy An, poor children in small fishing village in Hanoi and shared it on my social network. I was very happy when many people called to share with me their plans to help those children. Thus, I strongly believe that photography makes our life more meaningful and bring us come close together. I love traveling and I hope to have a chance to go around the world to take picture of people and children. Moreover, I hope to contribute my photos to society and bring a better life not only for me, but also for poor people and children over the world. https://journals.worldnomads.com/namlongnguyen/photos/30115/Vietnam/A-day-in-Thuy-An-Orphanage Travel Vietnam namlongnguyen https://journals.worldnomads.com/namlongnguyen/photos/30115/Vietnam/A-day-in-Thuy-An-Orphanage#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/namlongnguyen/photos/30115/Vietnam/A-day-in-Thuy-An-Orphanage Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:46:00 GMT 0