Sapa's 7 Years of Transformation Captured in Photographer's Lens
Photographer Bach Nam Hai's seven-year project documents Sapa's rapid transformation, contrasting the impacts of tourism-driven urbanization with the lives of its residents through stark monochrome images.
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