All seasoned with the hardest physical labor.
August 4, 1777 in London opened the world’s first circus. Since then, the circus has become a universal phenomenon, and not in the world a country where it would not be.
Photographer Christian Rodriguez, currently living in Barcelona, carefully documents the life of the Hanoi circus.
Remember stories about sad clowns? There all about. For the bright, laughing and an attractive picture from somewhere in the hidden childhood of extreme poverty and fear of the future. All seasoned with the hardest physical labor.
1. Inverted people in many of the photos Rodriguez is the upside down life.
2. While working on the project, the photographer lived with the Vietnamese circus performers for quite a long time and he knows what he’s talking about: “They live in an old theater, and their life completely destroyed”.
3. “Circus artists are trying to hide the difficulties of her life, they are shy. Many of them have iPhones and iPads, but they simply can’t afford decent, and even some housing.”
4. “In the photos I tried to focus on ordinary life by shooting them very close and might touch on some personal, intimate side of life, to show a different side of the circus.”
5. Vietnamese circus artists are very poor even by local standards.
6. Last year Cristian rodríguez arrived in this country with 130 euros in my pocket. It was enough to live there for three months.
7. The heroes of photos of Rodriguez and not the money. So all these lights, colors, clothes, and other circus paraphernalia is nothing more than a way of life that they want to live.
8. As the photographer concludes: “They want to live in a dream. But I can’t.”
