Marc Henrich: Sunday in Vientiane

Ban Sissavath, Street 7, Vientiane, 2009 [from “Sunday in Vientiane”] © Marc HenrichMarc Henrich wrote to tell me about his latest project entitled Sunday in Vientiane, which he describes in these words:

Taken mostly on Sundays, when the town is resting, these images of buildings in and around Vientiane, Laos present an unsentimental view of this city’s history through architecture. The sobering clarity and understated simplicity of these meticulous compositions are a testament to the quiet but brutal passage of time. The worn and faded facades allude to other times: the historical, the political, the cultural and the social – each building revealing a fragment of the city’s colonial past.