Vietnamese addicted to ‘virtual living’ photos
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- 01 May 2023
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Spending hours running between ‘check-in’ hotspots without getting any satisfying photos made Thuy Chi upset.
On a weekend afternoon at the end of February, the 26-year-old Hanoian girl asked her friends to go out and take photos of themselves with orchids and blackboard trees. The motivation for this was that she saw "a lot of photos of people with these flowers on the Internet."
The group of friends visited the To Lich River in Cau Giay District, as well as Hoang Dieu and Phan Dinh Phung streets in Ba Dinh District, only to see flocks of people already there.
They ultimately moved to the Ciputra urban area in Tay Ho district, but were stopped from entering by the guards there, as a result of the "no photos" rule. She had no other choice but to come back to Hoang Hoa Tham street in Ba Dinh district. But when she got back there, she saw many women already going as far as standing on chairs or climbing fences in order to get the best photos. Thuy Chi couldn’t get any good angles for her photos.
"It has never been this hard to take photos. All of the beautiful sites are crowded with people," Chi said. She and her friend then went to the Park City urban area in Ha Dong district, hoping to take photos with silver trumpet tree flowers because they were extremely determined to have photos to post on their Facebook profiles.
The trend of taking selfies in front of beautiful sites is not just for young people these days. 60-year-old Anh Dao from Hoang Mai district in Hanoi said she and her friends also took up the hobby after the pandemic. "Taking photos with flowers makes me feel like coming back to my youth. I feel happier and more relaxed after doing so," Dao explained.
The woman added that depending on the locations, she chooses between wearing ao dai (traditional Vietnamese tunics) and Western dresses. However, hiring a professional photographer to come along is a must for her, so that she and her group of friends can get the most beautiful photos.
Every few months, the group of friends pays for this kind of service and travels to different towns to shoot photos of themselves by water lily ponds, lotus ponds, or in rice plant fields. They pay around VND 1-2 million ($43-85) for each session. Read More…
