{"id":1963,"date":"2014-03-29T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2014-04-13T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:49:44","slug":"love-stories-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Love Stories from Vietnam &#8211; Maika Elan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Maika Elan and her World Press Photo award winning photo story \u2018The Pink Choice\u2019 played was a very special attraction of Pondy Photo 2014 which commenced on 21 March and continued till 6 April.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1966\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maika-Elan2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1966\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1966 \" alt=\"Maika-Elan2\" src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maika-Elan2-300x196.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maika-Elan2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maika-Elan2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Van Hung selects music to play as he and Quoc Ngan relax at the end of the day<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Maika Elan shares that she wanted to show her vision of these people, rather than how they see themselves. She regards love as something beautiful and she believes that we can only be truly supportive of homosexuality by accepting their love and seeing it as beautifully as it naturally is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Maika Elan, a.k.a Nguyen Than Hai got her BA in Sociology from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities after which she started taking pictures of daily and personal life. In 2010, Maika Elan moved to documentary photography. Her first project \u2018The Pink Choice\u2019 won first prize for contemporary issues at World Press Photo in 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In 2012, her first solo exhibition was hosted at Goethe Institute, Hanai. The Pink Choice is represented by MoST Artists. Currently she is based in Vietnam.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u2018The Pink Choice\u2019 was a part of the Delhi Photo Festival in 2013, through which this work came to be a part of Pondy Photo 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Photos: Tintumon M<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Tathagata Mitra<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">1st M.A. Mass Communication<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; gap:10px;justify-content:center\" class=\"wps-pgfw-pdf-generate-icon__wrapper-frontend\">\n\t\t<a  href=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in?action=genpdf&amp;id=1963\" class=\"pgfw-single-pdf-download-button\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-generator-for-wp\/admin\/src\/images\/PDF_Tray.svg\" title=\"Generate PDF\" style=\"width:auto; height:45px;\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maika Elan and her World Press Photo award winning photo story \u2018The Pink Choice\u2019 played was a very special attraction of Pondy Photo 2014 which commenced on 21 March and continued till 6 April.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-s34-around-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puinquirer.edu.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}