What do you get if you use the work of Vermeer as the basis for a photo essay set in Vietnam? If you go to jan banning‘s web site, you will see. Banning has taken the composition and other aspects of famous Vermeer painting and set his Vietnamese subject matter to it. I recommend you go see the site for that, but really, he has some other great photo essays as well, including one on Bureaucrats and another on the survivors of force labour on the Burma and Sumatra railways.
All the photographs are well done, and the essays are strong. I’d include a sample here, but it’s all locked down in Flash.
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