Parklife

The coolness and cover of night entices more personalities to Hanoi’s old Lenin Park.

The afternoon brings new faces to the city park. Communism and the park’s peculiar providence are far from their minds.

On a busy morning in a central Hanoi park, we follow the characters that tread its paths. Once used as a dump, the park has outlived a name change to honour Vladimir Lenin and survived a major redevelopment scam. Today’s park-goers reveal their lives in an evolving one-party state.