Thong Vo

Photographer
   
"Mom, don't be scared" - A story of my Mother fighting against depression during Covid lockdown in Vietnam
Location: Ho Chi Minh City
Nationality: Vietnam
Biography: Thong Vo (born in 1990) is a documentary photographer from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Thong graduated from RMIT Vietnam University with Communication degree, having worked in Creative and Digital Media fields before switching to photography. He built... MORE
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"Mom, don't be scared" - A story of my Mother fighting against depression during Covid lockdown in Vietnam
Copyright Thong Vo 2024
Date of Work Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Updated May 2022
Topics Documentary, Family, Health, Journalism, Photography, Social issue
Summary
The photos below are the story of my family, particularly my Mother during the last year's social distancing restriction in Vietnam. I made this photo reportage merely with the desire to record truthfully a difficult time that happened to my family, from the witness of a son, about an issue that is not new during the outspread of the pandemic, but more or less, has not been noticed as much as those daily infection numbers. It is the mental aftermath caused for the elderly as the result of long-time lockdown. Sadness, depression, hopelessness and fear - to name a few.
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