Events

Women’s beauty featured at photo exhibition

Fresh: Purity by Duong Quoc Dinh.

HA NOI — The first-ever national-level nude photo exhibition is open here in downtown Ha Noi between July 20 and 27.

The event features more than 50 photos of nude women by 10 popular artists.

Celestial: Heaven-made Curves by Do Thuy Mai.

The photos, which have been chosen by the culture ministry’s Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition, have been taken by photographers including Thai Phien, Duong Quoc Dinh, DzungArt Nguyen, and Le Quang Chau.

"We’re hosting this first nude photo exhibition to show that this topic is equal to other subjects," said Vi Kien Thanh at a press conference yesterday. "Through these pictures we would like to introduce a standard on nude photography, which is quite diferent to nude photos available on social networks."

"The quality of printing on big canvases enhances the images displayed," he said.

Blooming: A Summer Flower by Tran Nhan Quyen.

Photographer Do Thuy Mai, the only female artist at the event, said she had faced obstacles and social prejudices to nudism.

"Society has recently changed with more and more open minds. Before I had to seek for models, but now models have asked me to take nude photos of them," she said.

Photographer Vu Quoc Khanh, chairman of the Viet Nam Photographic Artists’ Assciation, highly appreciated the event from various angles.

Shadow play: Light’s Curves by Nguyen A.

"All the photos are delicately artful," he said. "Nude photos have been popular around the world for a long time already. Due to traditional Vietnamese customs, nude photos have not been publicised but photographers have been taking nude photos for a long time."

Photographer Vu Huyen could not hide his respect for his peers.

"They have been so courageous to follow the topic and sharpen their skills to create such beautiful photos for us now, which I cannot do," he said. "Vietnamese artists are freer than ever before to create artworks. I think now beside the true, the good and the beauty, artists now also share social benefits while making artworks as well."