TITLE: Mountain Playground

Motorbiking from south to north of Vietnam, I was exposed briefly to the lives that are lived in small mountain villages. Its scary to witness these dangerous roads let alone drive on them. But these are just the locals normal everyday surroundings. Their home and back garden.

When I noticed the kids playing with metal poles and concrete on the side of the road. I stopped in surprise and also in fear. Where they were playing probably had a 100ft+ sloping drop just behind. I knew it would be a moment I wouldn't forget, the comparison to my youth just rushing around my mind. So I just naturally snapped away.

Shot with Canon 5dmkIV, Canon 24-70 f2.8 II
Shutter Speed - 1/1000, F6.3, ISO 250, Shot at 38mm
Edited on Lightroom Classic

AUTHOR: Benjamin Fiore (Guernsey)

Born in 1993 in Guernsey Channel Islands, UK. Holds a degree in Commercial photography from The Arts University of Bournemouth. Throughout university he was a working commercial photographer and resident club photographer in the evenings. After graduating he started work as a professional photographer on Princess Cruise Ships, shooting portraiture during work hours and pursuing his passion as a documentary photographer when on land in personal time, whilst currently based in Guernsey working as a photographer and Photo Lab Assistant. He is open for assignments in Europe and abroad. Ben has been working on assignments in Asia, UK, US and Channel Islands. He is also involved in his own documentary projects, such as "Tuk tuk Drivers of Bangkok": an insight into transportation in Thailand and in-depth looks in to the labour intensive jobs in the farming industry. -