Glorious moments of Vietnamese football's 'golden generation' in photo book
More than 500 photos of the country's football achievements throughout 2018 were collected in a book by photographer Nguyen A.
Photographer Nguyen A holds an exhibition in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City to introduce new books - 2018 - Historical mark of Vietnamese football.The book is his ninth publication, 400 pages long and featuring more than 500 photos by Nguyen A. The work records the journey to glory of the Vietnamese team in 2018, from the Silver Medal at the U23 Asian Cup in Changzhou, China to the victory over Malaysia at the AFF Cup in My Dinh, Hanoi.
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Quang Hai's AFF Cup victory celebration moment through Nguyen A's lens. |
Photographer Nguyen A cherished the work while following the achievements of a golden generation of Vietnamese football at the 2018 U23 Asian Cup final, 2018 ASIAD and 2018 AFF Cup. During the matches, he worked as an artist, not a reporter. He was under creative pressure to think of unique and strange camera angles, different from most journalists attending the same event. For example, in the first leg of the AFF Cup final (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), in a photo, he captured the contrast in emotions between the groups of fans of the two countries sitting across a fence when the Vietnamese team scored. The photo of player Van Hau lying with his arms spread out on the national flag celebrating the final victory also created many emotions for viewers.
In addition to the moments of competition between the home team and opponents on the field, Nguyen A also focuses on the expressions of coach Park Hang-seo when watching his students compete, answering the media at press conferences... The many ways Vietnamese fans celebrate victories are also topics that he actively exploits.
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Nguyen A said he tried hard to have valuable moments of Vietnamese football in the past year. |
Journalist Nguyen Nguyen wrote a review for the book. "Dhistorical imprint of Vietnamese footballWith all the perspectives of Nguyen A, it is not simply football, the game of 11 players on the field, the Cup... It is also a journey associated with moments that make history and the joy of the whole country proud of the two words Vietnam", he wrote in the preface of the book. Previously, Nguyen A organized an exhibition about the book at the end of January at the Temple of Literature, Hanoi.
Nguyen A was born in 1968 in Ho Chi Minh City, is an excellent member of the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists. He has held the following exhibitions:They lived like that(National Excellent A Prize 2009), Heart and Talent - Who are they (National Excellent A Prize in the Vietnam Art Photography Contest accompanying the country for 30 years of renovation),Nick Vujicic and his days in Vietnam(National Excellent Prize 2013),Hoang Sa - Truong Sa Vietnam's sea and islands(National Excellence Gold Cup 2014)...
