First nude photo exhibition to come soon (Hanoi)

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02:25' 31/10/2007 (GMT+7)

... The exhibition, namely Spring, will showcase 48 nude photos by photographer Thai Phien from HCM City. This is the first nude photo exhibition licenced in Hanoi and even in Vietnam so far. Recently, the HCM City Department of Culture and Information refused to licence a nude photo exhibition, reasoning that nude photos are unsuitable to the customs and habits of Vietnam ...

... Photographer Thai Phien talks about his upcoming nude photo exhibition ...

Your exhibition is announced at a sensitive moment, when scandals related to unhealthy images are spread and stir up the public. What do you think about this?

I protest pornographic photos. But art is art. It is not true that we immediately have artistic nude photos by taking off others’ clothes. Moreover, it is absurd that everybody is banned from using lighters when a house catches fires. Nobody opposes nude photos on my website www.thaiphinephoto.com ...

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