Two Hmong women with baskets in Sapa, Vietnam

Two Hmong women with baskets in Sapa, Vietnam in January 2012

Women in traditional dress and carrying baskets on their backs in Sapa, Vietnam

Women in traditional dress and carrying baskets on their backs in Sapa, Vietnam in January 2012

Hmong women in traditional dress in Sapa, Vietnam

Hmong women in traditional dress in Sapa, Vietnam  in January 2012

Bread baskets

Man carrying baskets of bread in Istanbul in January 2014

Man pushing a cart

Man pushing a cart in Mong Kok, Hong Kong in September 2012

Hmong women at the market

Local woman in Sapa, Vietnam in January 2012

Sapa locals

Local minority woman in Sapa, Vietnam in January 2012

Pickup baskets

Baskets in the back of a ute at Namtok Chet Sao Noi National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand in February 2012

Blessed food containers

Women carrying food to be blessed by the priests at the Pura Tirta Empul temple in the village of Tampak Siring, Tampaksiting district, Bali, Indonesia in June 2011

Hats for sale

Shop at a Karen village in the Mae Hong Son district in northern Thailand in December 2009

Big baskets

Baskets and a broom taken near Krung Thonburi road in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2009

Bicycle carter

Bicycle rider carting goods in Kowloon, Hong Kong in July 2009

Boat baskets

A Boat carting baskets on the Thu Bon River, Hoi An, Vietnam, in March 2008

Masks

I photographed these masks in Hanoi outside a shop in March 2008. Very evocative.