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Vietnamese photographer wins FIAP’s gold medal

Photographer Truong Thanh Nha won gold medal at Photo Club Arizona (PCA) Salon 2017 in Serbia for his black & white photo.
Vietnamese photographer wins FIAP’s gold medal ảnh 1Award-winning photo by ​Truong Thanh Nha.

Hanoi (VNA) -Photographer Truong Thanh Nha won gold medal at Photo Club Arizona (PCA) Salon2017 in Serbia for his black & white photo.

Based in the southern province of Kien Giang, Nha took the photo by chancewhile travelling to the popular and beautiful northern township of Sa Pa in LaoCai province in 2012. The photo features five children, with the elder kidscarrying their sister and brother on their backs. The faces of the olderchildren look worried and anxious.

"This is the first time I have won a gold medal from FIAP -- aninternational organisation of national associations of photography," Nha,former editor-in-chief of Kien Giang newspaper, said. The former editor engagedin photography 10 years ago after retiring. He is especially known for shootingthousands of pictures of cranes, some of them winning local and internationalawards.

The photo also won A prize at a competition launched by the Vietnam Associationof Photography Artists in 2012. Two photos by Nha are also displayed at thesalon. 

Other Vietnamese photographers who bagged awards include Tran Phong with PCA’sgold medal, Nguyen Ngoc Thach with FIAP’s Honourable Mention, Le Hoang Nhanwith PCA’s Honourable Mention and Nguyen Trung Kien with PCA’s silvermedal. 

PCA Salon 2017 was held for amateur and professional photographers from aroundthe world with approval from FIAP, Photographic Society of America (PSA) andPCA, with nature, photo travel and journalism as the themes. Nearly 6,300photos by 376 photographers from 62 countries and territories were submittedfor the competition.-VNA
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