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“For me, Saigon is a young man… Saigon gives me everything from losses to successes to daily peace. Saigon has seen the best moments of my life, ”Nguyen told Tuoi Tre Weekend.
An old woman dressed in a suit and with a red plastic basket slowly lowered the cycle. A young woman adjusts a sheet that has just dried on the wall of an apartment …
Many such funny images of Saigon have entered Van Nguyen’s camera, as this young man sat quietly drinking Ba Lu racket coffee at the Phung Hung Market (District 5) at 7:00 am on the day in early December. .
Eat at the end of each story about Saigon
Nguyen said that I love Saigon very much. Loving like this, every morning I feel very happy to wake up and find myself in the heart of Saigon. I love that the self-introduction on my Instagram page @odaucungchup is “Do you guys love Saigon like I do?”
@odaucungchup is the place where Nguyen posted photos of Saigon for people who love Saigon like him, his billionaires told them stories that this guy from the marketing industry heard, captured, felt about Saigon, one of the most frivolous.
“The ladies were very professional in wrapping the cake, it was 9-10 at night, but I kept looking and taking photos passionately and I couldn’t go back, they asked me to go home and told me to cook cake again tomorrow. ‘more’, – Nguyen tells the accidental story behind a set of photos.
The images may not be unfamiliar: alleys, cables juggling the streets, buildings shading the river, canal bed in the afternoon, but for the Yuan it is enough.
For a person who loves Saigon, “going everywhere, anywhere, in this city, I feel very at peace.”
One night when the city was cold, Nguyen told the story of Saigon, but not with the lens but in a conversation with us.
This is not an interview; Ongoing, impromptu stories like the way this kid born in 1992 regularly tells his 103,000 followers on Instagram every day.
“Go shopping to fix things and see that the old signs are clean and beautiful, then I go right away because I really have a lot of faith in being nice to the profession in these places.”
“Honestly, I never planned to post a photo today, tell a story, but every day I have an interest in telling something, I would look at the photos, do a little edit and then recite the related story. That photo, always write and post, so it was a typo (typo) the whole time and then everyone knew about it, taking it as a sign of their identification “- Nguyen laughed, he said.
One of the other defining characteristics of Nguyen is that he always ends his sentence with commas instead of punctuation marks.
“I want to leave the story behind so that people who hear the story of Saigon tell their own story with this city, from their point of view. I don’t like to advise people to live like this or that; the image after that comma will do make people feel more comfortable “- explained Nguyen.
“At this point, I started to get up early and go to the street, mostly, I visit some markets in District 5, on my way from Capital Market to Big Market, on my way from Hai Thuong Lan Ong to Ben Binh Dong. Also bustling, vendors shopped, and yellow and red filled the street.
The predestined relationship with Saigon
A lot of people are surprised to learn that this guy who likes to tell stories about Saigon … is not from Saigon, but from Dak Lak. From a student who suddenly set foot in Saigon to go to school 10 years ago, Nguyen gradually loved Saigon “when it was no good.”
Nguyen says he has a great affinity for Saigon, just as stories about Saigon come to him very casually.
“Sometimes there are places that I accidentally visit, but I am still as sincere as possible, pulling out my guts, people will also treat me with kindness, opening up, sharing more” – He originally concluded.
Photo from a project by @odaucungchup
The owner of @odaucungchup says the title of “photographer” is too big for me, instead he prefers to be portrayed as “visual storyteller from Saigon”.
During the process of walking, taking pictures, remembering and recording me, Nguyen always told himself to “learn to live happily in the middle of Saigon”, as some noodle sellers told a young man: “Sit down, I make a bowl. of noodles and I speak. “
Photo from a project by @odaucungchup
Besides keeping impromptu photos, Nguyen also has longer-term projects on Saigon that he appreciates as Old Saigon, Saigon House, Saigon Alley, Saigon Xi Ne, Saigon People… they are collections of old letterpress printed signs from yesteryear, houses with colored doors gathered in a whole color palette, dozens of cinemas that once flourished, or the moments of children, a lifelong person in this land of Saigon.
* How much did you love Saigon? “Dare” ask, “Do you love Saigon like me?”
– It’s a bit difficult to measure my emotions, but I am such a Saigon lover that I can happily do all kinds of sports in Saigon, that I don’t care if the listeners are bored or bored. Not because I’m not bored. (laughs) For me, Saigon is a huge warehouse of material that I will probably never be able to capture.
Sometimes life is so busy in this city with so many good and bad sides that people never wonder if they love Saigon. Perhaps, upon hearing Nguyen’s question, someone began to notice Saigon a bit more. Saigon is like heavy rain, slowly seeping into me until at one point I suddenly realized that I love this city so much.
Bui Nguyen Van Nguyen, a lover of Saigon – Photo: NVCC
* So what is Saigon in Nguyen?
– Be young and homey. This place gives me many things, even the love for Saigon is in itself Saigon for me, I opened my heart to accept it and that feeling continued to develop.
Saigon gives me many people to remember and each one makes a very beautiful impression on me, giving me “strange” relationships, like a guy selling kumquat. Now I am a member of my client family, every Tet I bring gifts back and forth. Or on every busy trip away from Sài Gòn, you crave all things “nothing”, like for a sandwich.
Saigon plays an important role in my emotions, giving me the first time I am very happy, the first time my bike is stolen, the first time I quit my job … Many times I have to “ask for help in Saigon”. Those were when my mood was extremely bad, so I left everything, walked, stayed in the middle of the street listening to the sound of the car, the sound of the aunt selling the restaurant …
Hearing those sounds, feeling the atmosphere, I feel that positive energy fills me with energy to continue “plowing”.
* How does Nguyen plan to maintain his “Saigon storytelling channel”?
– By building a place with positive breath like @odaucungchup, I feel responsible for it, to maintain, to make this place always positive. I am very happy that you all came to @odaucungchup in a very positive way.
I want to build this canal more carefully, bring more perspectives on Saigon. I started this page out of love for this place, so I will still keep it as my love in Saigon. That love is still strong and this site will live on very strongly.
