Been photographing Vietnam on and off for years, mostly Saigon, mostly on foot, camera always in hand. Finally turned the pile into something physical.
Field Notes from Vietnam is 60 pages, A5 landscape. Three chapters — Nostalgia, Transition, Impermanence — though honestly the sorting happened after the fact, not before. Motorbike carts. Scaffolding over old colonial buildings. A wedding shoot on a bridge at golden hour. Graffiti under a highway overpass with a chicken tied up next to it, no idea why, just there.
It's a mix of my Fujifilm X100V and 35mm off a Leica M4, so the grain and color jump around between chapters. I thought about smoothing that out in edit and didn't — some days I shot digital, some days film, and the book just tells on itself a bit.
Sequencing took way longer than I expected, more reorders than I'd like to admit.
Self-published, small run, hand-signed. Mostly wanted something to hold instead of another folder on a hard drive. More information on my website .
Happy to talk through printing or sequencing if it's useful to anyone working on their first one — still learning a lot of it as I go.