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An intimate portrait of a Vietnamese woman sitting next to her great-granddaughter in a dark, smoky room as she works on some embroidery has won the National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition 2025.
Taken in Vietnam’s Lào Cai province by UK-based photographer Justin Cliffe, the winning image was selected from thousands of entries and described by judges as portraying a “moment between generations that captures so much beauty and humanity.”
“The colours, light and textures work really well,” the judges added in a press release Thursday.
The art of embroidery has been passed down multiple generations of Red Dao…
