Ninh Kiều

Most rice paper is still made by hand. A woman demonstrates how the paper dried on racks. One maker can produce thousands of sheets a day.

This is a portrait of some playful children we befriended near Can Tho in the Mekong region. Surprisingly, whenever kids saw we had a camera, they would ask us to take their photo. We loved sharing it back with them on the screen of our digital camera.

A young girl paddled her wash tub out into the middle of the river to say hello to me. She handled this boat like a pro, keeping it on a straight course and paddling side to side like in a kayak.