Hanoi, Vietnam Street Photography

Available for editorial and commercial licensing

Hanoi has an energy that gets under your skin. The streets are alive with movement — motorbikes weaving through alleys, kids chasing each other between fruit stands, vendors setting up shop on the sidewalk like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Every corner has its own rhythm, and walking with a camera feels like stepping into a never-ending stream of stories.

I carried one body and one lens, and let that limitation push me into seeing differently. Some moments you catch, others slip away, but that’s the beauty of street work. It’s fast, unpredictable, and brutally honest. These frames from Hanoi are part of a larger body of travel work I’ve been building, and they’re available for editorial and commercial licensing.

Why Photograph Hanoi This Way

I wanted to keep it simple — one lens, one perspective. The city doesn’t need much help telling its own story. Life spills out everywhere: coffee brewed streetside, scooters stacked three deep at stoplights, laundry hanging above sidewalks. Photographing it felt less about finding “shots” and more about staying open long enough to let them find me.

Street Life and Daily Rhythm

Markets buzzing before sunrise, old men playing checkers on plastic stools, women carrying baskets balanced across their shoulders — Hanoi’s everyday life has a timeless quality. These photographs are less about the place on a map and more about the pulse of human movement.

Licensing Use Cases

These images are available for:

Travel and culture magazine features
Editorial stories on Southeast Asia and Vietnam
Commercial campaigns for tourism, hospitality, and lifestyle brands
Website or social content for companies wanting authentic imagery from Hanoi

Licensing Information

Each project is unique. I offer a range of options — from single-use editorial licenses to commercial rights packages — depending on how the images will be used. If you’re working on a story, campaign, or brand project and need photographs of Hanoi street life, I’d be glad to put something together for you.

The streets of Hanoi have a way of pulling you in. They’re noisy and chaotic, but at the same time full of small, quiet moments worth holding onto. That’s what I wanted these photographs to be — honest reflections of a place in motion.

If you’d like to license these images, or discuss a project that needs photography in this part of the world, reach me directly at rob@robhammerphotography.com..