Hanoi (VNA) – Viet Van Tran, a photographer fromthe Lao Dong newspaper, has been selected to join others of a free-to-enteronline Salon of Photography, entitled “The Connected World: 2020” capturingmoments of time in the US and around the world this year.
The event, a joint project between the Los Angeles Centre ofPhotography (LACP) and the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego toacknowledge the importance of photography and art in capturing historic worldevents, is scheduled to run from October 24 to December 31.
Its 7-member jury selected 68 entries from 58 photographersfor the exhibition out of those from 300 candidates around the globe. Van was theonly Vietnamese at the event.
His picture to be exhibited, titled “Noi am anh” (Obsession),captures the 6-year-old girl Khanh Han standing in front of a painting on theCOVID-19 theme by her farther – painter Nguyen Tan Phat. The work was rankedamong the top 20 best photos at the Better Photography Magazine Photo of theYear 2020’s Emotive Portrait Category./.
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