Photo of Vietnamese fishermen wins first prize in US photography
The photo taken by photographer Pham Ty of two women sewing nets in Vinh Hy Bay, Ninh Thuan, won the Grand Prize at the Smithsonian magazine (USA) photography awards.
The Smithsonian Photography Awards are presented by the magazine and website of the same name. This magazine specializes in science, history, art, popular culture and innovation.
This year’s competition had more than 26,000 entries from 93 countries around the world. The categories were Natural World, Travel, People, The American Experience, Transformative Images, and Moving Objects. Photographer Pham Ty’s photo won the Grand Prize for all categories, while the photo was in the People category.
Four other photos from Vietnamese photographers made it to the final round of this year’s contest, including Ly Hoang Long, Hoang The Nhiem, Tran Viet Phuong and Nguyen Trang. Here are the Vietnamese photos from the contest:
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| Grand Prize: A photo of two women sewing nets while their husbands go fishing, taken by Pham Ty in Vinh Hy Bay, Ninh Thuan in May 2012, using a Nikon D300. The two characters seem to be immersed in the fishing net, their means of livelihood, that is the beauty of the photo. |
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| Travel category finalist: Hoang The Nhiem captured a woman harvesting water lilies in Chau Doc, Mekong Delta in October 2014, using a Sony Ilce-7R. During the flood season, wild water lilies grow everywhere in the flooded rice fields. Water lilies have become a special dish for the people of this region, often used in salads or cooked in fish soup. |
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| Travel category finalist: Photo by Ly Hoang Long of a man sitting next to a fishing net in the morning at Tuyen Lam Lake, Da Lat, Lam Dong in March 2014, using a Nikon D700 |
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| People category finalist: Photo by Tran Viet Phuong of a boy jumping into the water while swimming with his friends in Nghiem Xuyen, Thuong Tin, Hanoi in August 2014, using a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III. |
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| Finalist in the Transformative Image category: Nguyen Trang captured this photo of fog covering the landscape at Ba Na Hills, Da Nang in April 2014, using a Canon EOS 6D. The Ba Na cable car holds the record for the longest and highest cable car line in the world. |
According to thethaovanhoa.vn/Photo: Smithsonian.com
