Colin Paul, a Runcorn based travel photographer is launching his new exhibition, 'Vibrant Viet Nam', at Widnes library on Friday 2nd March.He first visited Vietnam in November 2009, when he spent five days in Hanoi on the back-end of a business trip to Malaysia.
Colin, a former lecturer, said: "I fell in love with the country, its history, culture and varied landscape, and most of all with its kind, smiling people.”
The set of photographs is a small part of his journey he experienced in August 2011. Prints from the exhibition are available for sale and all monies raised will be donated to the Charity – SENSE for deaf blind people and the exhibition will run until May.
Last year he won competition for taking a Halton Borough Council library book to the most interesting and inspiring place during the summer. Readers were urged to take part in Halton Borough Council's ‘Reading Places’ book promotion and enter the competition by filling out a postcard with their destination on it and returning it to the library. Colin took his 'Rough Guide to Vietnam' to the country and it proved an invaluable travel companion. He returned his postcard which told of his adventure travelling through Vietnam, and won the Reading Places competition. The contest was part of a campaign from North West Libraries Time to Read organisation.
