TA PHIN - Hard life Easy to Live
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While the women of Ta Phin are busy feeding their children, ploughing their fields, making and mending their family’s clothes, they are also concerned for their culture, environment and community. They worry about how they can create a fair and hopeful future for themselves and their children.
A series of photographs, written journal entries and video documentary made with the women of Ta Phin village in northern Vietnam. Erin McCuskey & Lynden Baxter created these works to support fundraising for a larger market for the women in Ta Phin. The market was successfully built the following year.
They believe sustainable tourism, will enhance their lives, bring the outside world into their village and protect their culture. The development of works and the exhbition was a result of a partnership between the women of Ta Phin and the artists to promote sustainable tourism in northern Vietnam.
A positive and enriching cultural exchange. All media works have been given to the women of Ta Phin for use on their website, to support the promotion of responsible tourism in their village.
STORY: The Story of Ta Phin
Stories of the women of Ta Phin:
- Mrs Ly May Chan
- Ly Lo May
- Mrs Ly Man May
- Ly Ta May
- Mrs Ly Ta May King
- Ta Phin: A Hard Life, Easy to Live
FILM: Ta Phin Hard Life Easy to Live
IMAGES: Ta Phin Flickr Slideshow
INTRO: Dear Ta Phin