“No one in our village was as beautiful as she was…we liked each other since we were 12 years old…”And so explained 92 year-old Thai Truang Dao explained why he married his wife, Thai Mo Ba.
Both welcomed graciously me and Maika Elan in his small home in Hoi An, and allowed me to photograph wherever and whatever I wanted.
Thai Truang Dao started a small coffee-shop in his home town during the mid forties and with some leap of imagination, could be considered as the Howard Schultz (Starbucks CEO) of Hoi An.
Readers of my blog have seen that I'm trying out the various new storytelling platforms, and Medium is one those. It's a blog publishing platform, founded by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone a couple of years ago. It has evolved into a hybrid of non-professional contributions and professional, paid contributions, an example of social journalism.
I'm glad to be returning to Hoi An, where I hope I'll be able to revisit the couple, and give them prints of these photographs.
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