Appreciate the details

08 April, 2019: Record, Play and Pause

My gratitude towards LensonMekong & School of Slow Media -----

Photography is an art of life. Art is abstract but also simple. Something is taken for granted can be a masterpiece of art. That something tend to be little details missed out in life. Details are connected into big pictures and should be appreciated and paid attention. It's good to step back and zoom out the whole landscape of issues, yet life is all about small things that create elements of love.

Look closer and zoom in to see how beautiful the chocolate can be, what shape the piece of salt can be, or how lively and spiritual a tree can be!

Learn how to care for the details beyond such big things that many people are chasing around. Learn how to practice compassionate gaze towards strangers and follow-up empathetic behaviors along the journey. Learn how to map out the ecosystem of relationships among human and nature. Learn what is the interrelations of record-pause-play to constantly live, enjoy and reflect. Learn how to coordinate all human resources into a strong force to make things happen. Learn how to listen to my own heart, recall the past of stupidity and cowardice and see myself in the shoes of the youthful spirits. Learn how teamwork and connection look like in reality. Learn how similarities and differences empower people and bring all together. Learn how powerful and difficult technology is in order to make human-centric documentaries. Learn how people in the Mekong live comfortably and resiliently to sustain their livelihood over climate changes and severe impacts of human. Learn how much hospitapility and support the local people in Mekong offer to us, a team of diverse minds and backgrounds.

Learn what is Gumption! As long as we have gumption to dream and act, we will make things happen!

Saigon...

Now matter how hectic life is, it never comes to the extent that we have no time to reflect and breathe.

It's just that we don't want to do, then we have reasons for the rejection or the carelessness. Appreciate and live the life but don't forget to breathe, reflect and care for our beloved people.