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(357 posts) Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:02 PM Jan 2013

NYTimes: Real Faces, Real People, Real Love in Vietnam

Maika Elan's photos in "The Pink Choice". Portraits of gay and lesbian Vietnamese couples.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/real-faces-real-people-real-love-in-vietnam/?ref=global-home

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NYTimes: Real Faces, Real People, Real Love in Vietnam (Original Post) marginlized Jan 2013 OP

Gorgeous photos! intheflow Jan 2013 #1

nice photos handmade34 Jan 2013 #2

Beautiful photographs of a beautiful thing. flamin lib Jan 2013 #3

intheflow

(28,501 posts)

1. Gorgeous photos!

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Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:06 PM

Jan 2013

And an interesting inspiration for the series, that another exhibit the photographer had seen of LGBT in Vietnam was harsh and showed no faces, thus rendering (for her) the subjects somewhat inhuman. Her photographs show very real humans leading very real lives. Beautiful!

handmade34

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2. nice photos

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Mon Jan 7, 2013, 01:48 PM

Jan 2013

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)

3. Beautiful photographs of a beautiful thing.

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Mon Jan 7, 2013, 02:20 PM

Jan 2013

God I wish I were that good.

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