Two Vietnamese photographers among Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year winners
Two Vietnamese photographers have won prizes in the Street Food category and Food at the Table category in the UK's Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Awards.
Category winners in the awards recognising the art and diversity of food photography.
Viet Van Tran's entry, "Enjoying", shows four girls eating che (sweet soup) in Hoi An (Quang Nam province), an old town and popular tourist destination in central Vietnam. It was entered in the Street Food category for photos about people selling, buying and eating food.
"Four young girls passionately eating soup made me feel that life is lovely even though we are in a pandemic," said Tran.
Other photo "Breakfast at Weekly Market" taken by Thong Nguyen won the prize in the Food at the Table category. The photo showed people enjoy their Pho (Noodle soup), a traditional Vietnamese dish that is considered one of the typical for Vietnamese cuisine.
People enjoy their pho for breakfast at a local weekly market. Photograph/Thong Nguyen
Li Huaifeng has been named Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2021 for an image titled Taste, showing a young family joyfully preparing a meal at home in Licheng, Shanxi.
"This picture is technically outstanding in its use of light and composition," awards founder and director Caroline Kenyon says."But what raises it to the level of historic importance is the depth of its storytelling and emotion."It tells of a year of isolation and living indoors, living in tiny communities of immediate family.
Overall winner and Food for the Family: Taste by Li Huaifeng, China.
With the competition now in its 10th year, judges sifted through almost 10,500 entries from more than 70 countries around the world and the winners announced online via a livestream event.
Here are some of the competition category winners, with descriptions by the photographers.
World Food Programme Food for Life: Drinking from Garbage by Md Mahabub Hossain Khan, Bangladesh. A small child drinking from a bottle.
Champagne Taittinger Wedding Food Photographer: Many a Slip by John Armstrong-Millar, France. Normally weddings run to plan but an off-script moment is captured.
Fujifilm Award for Innovation: Making Rice Noodles by Abdul Momin, Bangladesh A worker inspects whether rice noodles are dried correctly.
The Claire Aho Award for Women Photographers: Female butchers of Panzano - Martina by Marina Spironetti, Italy. Part of a project about the female butchers at Dario Cecchini’s, the world-famous butcher from Panzano in Chianti. Dario has been training a team of young ladies, who came to Tuscany from all over the world to learn the art of deboning. Traditionally, there have always been women butchers in Tuscany.
Bring Home the Harvest: Drying Okra by F Dilek Uyar, Turkey Drying okra flowers in Tokat, Turkey. Women pick okra flowers from the field and arrange them on a rope, then the dried flowers fall and the okra becomes ready to be used in winter.
Food Stylist Award: Cobia fillet by Martin Grünewald, Germany A still life of cobia/black kingfish with recipe ingredients.
"Vietnamese crab noodle soup" - Hanoi's style has plenty of versions which combine special ingredients such as fertilized duck egg, beef and stir-fried snail,...which bring ...
In the global tourism landscape, cuisine is becoming a special "language" for countries to define their image and win over tourists. With its rich and distinctive culinary traditions, Vietnam has a great opportunity to transform its culinary culture into a national asset.
Amid the vibrant atmosphere welcoming the New Year 2026, on January 1, the Vietnamese community in Malaysia organized the Vietnamese Lunar New Year Food Fair 2026 at The Mines Resort in Selangor State. Spanning three days, the event not only showcased the essence of traditional Vietnamese cuisine but also served as a cultural meeting point, fostering community bonds and promoting the image of Vietnam to international friends.
Ha Noi will waive fares for buses and urban rail services during the Hung Kings Commemoration Day, Reunification Day (April 30), and International Labour Day (May 1), covering 128 subsidized bus routes and two metro lines for a total of seven days.
On the afternoon of April 23, as part of the agenda of the First Session of the 16th National Assembly of Vietnam, the legislature voted to adopt the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Overseas Representative Missions of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with a high approval rate.
The draft Resolution on the development of Vietnamese culture introduces a range of breakthrough mechanisms, including ensuring a minimum allocation of 2% of the state budget for culture and granting employees a paid day off on “Vietnam Cultural Day".
On April 16, the Embassy of Vietnam in Hungary, in coordination with the Association of Vietnamese Intellectuals in Hungary, organized a scientific workshop titled “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Court and Judicial System - European Union (EU) Experience and Applications for Vietnam.” The event brought together technology experts, legal scholars, and researchers from Vietnam and various European countries.
The “Program to support outstanding doctoral candidates for the 2026-2030 period” introduces, for the first time, a mechanism for large-scale, direct investment in doctoral candidates, with maximum funding of up to VND 1 billion per person per year.
Statistical data comparing the 10 largest economies in Asia by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the 1980-2025 period show that the region’s economic center of gravity has shifted significantly.
The Ministry of Education and Training is drafting regulations on free textbooks, proposing to provide free textbooks to general education students and learners at educational institutions implementing the general education curriculum and the continuing education program at the upper secondary level nationwide from the 2029-2030 academic year.
The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has released its weather outlook for regions nationwide during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday of the Year of the Horse, from February 13 to 22, 2026 (corresponding to the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month to the 6th day of the Lunar New Year).
Travel
World
Handbook
Handbook
Handbook
Handbook
Handbook
Handbook
Handbook
Handbook