I Like to Shoot Weddings—Vietnam

I spent the week shooting for the book Passage to Vietnam on the back of my fixer’s motor scooter in Hanoi. We did a number of jobs, some arranged, others just knocking around. While driving, a couple of ladies in traditional dress passed us in traffic on another scooter. We started following them, and I was making pictures and they were laughing.

My fixer turns and says, “It’s a wedding. Do you want to go?” Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson aside, where I come from, you just don’t crash a wedding and start shooting pictures. “Can we do that?” I asked.