Hanoi wedding | Nga and Tim

Tim Gerard Barker is a photographer and videographer based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He’s also a friend and someone I always grab a beer with when I’m in town. So I was very happy when he and his fiancee Nga asked me to photograph their Vietnamese wedding in Hanoi earlier this year.

I lived in Hanoi for 10 years and saw first-hand how rapidly the city changed during that time. It’s an odd and uniquely amazing place – on one hand, it’s rooted in tradition, on the other it’s a perpetual motion machine that accelerates and transforms right before your eyes. Life moves pretty fast here. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. 

Which is why it’s good to photograph it.

Thanks, Nga and Tim for inviting me up for the good times!

For more wedding photography from northern Vietnam, check out Krystal and Tristan’s epic Halong Bay junk boat wedding!