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[The Guardian] Tales from my grandfather: Hoa Huynh’s Vietnam – photo essay
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Tales from my grandfather: Hoa Huynh’s Vietnam – photo essay

As the youngest of his 10 grandchildren, I am learning who my yeye was through his art

Grandparents are a mystery and, when you layer on barriers of culture and language, can we ever say we know who they really were?

Hoa Huynh – my yeye, or grandad – was born in 1928 in a small town in the central highlands of the then French colony of Indochina. His yeye had brought his family south from China, fleeing the crumbling Qing dynasty. And so Yeye grew up in Vietnam with dirt roads, oil lamps and livestock in the street. Many of his friends and family had never heard of photography, but at 17 he taught himself to shoot and develop film.

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