'Baby' Sa Pa causes fever in online community

Posted on many websites and backpacking groups, the photo "The Baby" by photographer Pham Nhat Viet quickly became the center of attention of the online community.

The photo "The Baby" touched the online community.

Recently, a photo of an ethnic girl posted on Facebook unexpectedly received a lot of attention from the online community. Just 15 hours after posting, the photo attracted more than 80,000 reactions, nearly 500 shares and comments.

The innocent eyes, charming smile and affectionate gestures of a H'Mong girl in SaPa with her younger brother were captured by photographer Pham Nhat Viet.

The little girl was wearing traditional clothes and sandals, sitting as a pillow for her younger brother to sleep, her eyes looking straight into the camera lens, smiling brightly but somewhat shyly. The little girl's innocent eyes also left many emotions for the viewers.

"Oh, I don't know what to say, it looks so pitiful! I wish she lived near my house?" is the feeling of Nguyen Minh Thu when seeing the photo, or the comment of Diep Thien Binh: "While I was lying in a warm blanket and soft mattress, looking at the two children, I felt so pitiful"; "It's so cold, looking at the two children makes me feel so sorry, but looking at the eyes and smiling lips of the little girl, she is so innocent and pure".

Another moment of the baby provided by Pham Nhat Viet.

However, there are also many opinions that this is a very familiar image in SaPa. Vu Son Hai commented: "I just came back from Sa Pa, I saw that the children were still very young but mainly worked as souvenir sellers. There were very young children but carried their younger siblings all day to earn money. What I see here is that the children lack not warm clothes but the right amount of play for their age."

The photo was shared as a "secret moment" taken by Mr. Pham Nhat Viet, born in 1987, currently living and working in Hai Duong, while "wandering" in Sa Pa town, "at that time it was around 10pm at the love market in Sa Pa".

Anh Viet said that at that time, there were many children but he was completely attracted to this little girl "because she had very beautiful eyes". At first, it was just a coincidence, buying things and then having the chance to meet her again sitting with her younger sibling and mother. He started a conversation and secretly recorded her innocent moments.

Responding to the opinion that the photo reflects the "commercialization of tourism" that forces children to work hard to earn money, the photographer from Hai Duong expressed: "I am a photographer who specializes in taking photos of children. I just hope that the children will forever maintain the innocence like the photos I take."

Baby and mother at SaPa session.

According to Dantri