{"id":3142,"date":"2026-06-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/?post_type=news&p=3142"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:12:43","slug":"hoian-old-photo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/news\/hoian-old-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a \"departed family member\" in a 1997 photo remaining in Hoi An \u2014 a Dutch photographer bridges a 28-year connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos of Hoi An taken by a Dutch photographer about 30 years ago are now becoming the locals' \"family album.\" When photos of Hoi An's Old Quarter taken in June 1997 byFrank van den Berghe (76)<\/strong>\u306e\u5199\u771f\u304cSNS\u3067\u5e83\u307e\u308b\u3068\u3001\u5199\u771f\u306e\u4e2d\u306b\u81ea\u5206\u3084\u4ea1\u304d\u89aa\u65cf\u306e\u59ff\u3092\u898b\u3064\u3051\u305f\u4f4f\u6c11\u304c\u6b21\u3005\u3068\u540d\u4e57\u308a\u51fa\u305f\u3002\u89b3\u5149\u5730\u306b\u306a\u308b\u524d\u306e\u30db\u30a4\u30a2\u30f3\u3092\u5199\u3057\u305f1\u679a\u304c\u3001\u7d0430\u5e74\uff0829\u5e74\uff09\u306e\u6642\u3092\u8d8a\u3048\u3066\u4eba\u3092\u3064\u306a\u3044\u3067\u3044\u308b\u3002<\/p>\n

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What Frank shot was daily life: the Japanese Covered Bridge (Chua Cau), Bach Dang Street, in front of the Ceramics Museum, people selling mi quang at stalls, people fishing in the river. It's a scene of simple living, different from today's Hoi An bustling with tourists. When the photos were released, local reactions spread, \"this is my grandmother,\" \"this is the man next door.\"<\/p>\n

The family found within the photos<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tran Thi Du (41), a Hoi An resident, spoke about the lives of the people in the photos and the customs of the time. Her grandchild Do Ngoc found in the photos the figure of her grandmother Huynh Thi Mai, who used to sell smoked fish by the river, and was moved. There too was \"Old Man Thoi,\" a neighbor of Du's family who used to fish in a small boat. It was a moment when lost time returned to the family's hands in a single photo.<\/p>\n

Hoi An before it became a tourist destination<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to Frank, Hoi An in 1997 wasn't accustomed to English being common or to receiving international tourists. He was refused when buying gasoline because the language didn't get through, and was puzzled by pricing born of unfamiliarity. Even so, the photos of that time record the people's expressions and the town's true face. It's another face of today's Hoi An, known as a World Heritage site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Item<\/th>\nDetails<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Photographer<\/td>\nFrank van den Berghe (Netherlands, age 76)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When photographed<\/td>\nJune 1997<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Where photographed<\/td>\nHoi An Old Quarter (the Japanese Covered Bridge, Bach Dang Street, and others)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Response<\/td>\nSpreading on social media, residents found late family and neighbors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

From old photos that connect, to today's Hoi An<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Source:VnExpress<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photo of Hoi An taken by a Dutch photographer in 1997 spread on social media, and residents found deceased family and neighbors. A story of a single image capturing the old town before it became a tourist site connecting people 28 years on.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"swell_btn_cv_data":"","ssp_meta_description":"","ssp_meta_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,56],"tags":[],"purpose":[],"keyword":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-3142","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","category-news","category-travel-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3142\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"purpose","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purpose?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietnam-gift.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}