Dear all,
I would like to invite you to discover "Gem Painting", a wonderful art that is the back bone of the gem industry in the Luc Yen province of Vietnam and could be introduced in many gem producing areas around the world to support gem mining communities and helping them to get revenues from the stones they produce.
We did this new short field documentary as a side project during a recent field expedition to Vietnam to collect reference samples for Danat.
Gem paintings is a rather old technique that is not very well known but that have in our opinion a great potential. They were introduced to the Yen The area in Vietnam during the 1990's by few ingenious local people who were inspired by what people were doing in Thailand.
In this documentary we interviewed some gem painters both in Thailand and in Vietnam and we decided to let them speak about their wonderful art.
We hope that this short documentary will be able to inspire people willing to develop the gem industry around the world, or to provide alternative livelihoods to people around places where gems are produced. As we saw in Vietnam, there is a big market for "gem paintings". Gem paintings can be used to decorate hotels, religious or official buildings, offices, houses, shops, etc.. They can also be sold as souvenirs for visiting tourists or used as export products.
Many thanks to the people who welcomed us in Thailand and Vietnam and more particularly to Wanlaya Suwan from Thang Thong art in Thailand and Mai Tran and Geir Atle Gussiås in Vietnam.
Special thanks also to my team: First to Philippe Brunot who did a wonderful job directing and filming that documentary and to my old friend Thi Hoa Le for her support with translations, then to Didier Barriere and Anthony Methez for their additional images and also to my expedition guests (Raphaelle Cousteix, Circé Simonet, Katherine Andrews, Thierry Fontich, Yann Even Bouten, Angir Jp) for their support and understanding.
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