This was my third trip to Tho Ha Village with the X-Peditions. The village industry is edible handmade rice paper and 16” rice crackers. That novelty had dissolved last year. Now I was faced with the News Shooter’s Dilemma: how do I shoot something that I’ve seen before? What did I miss? It was a sobering thought as I dozed in the pre-dawn bus ride.

I was on my way to a Vietnamese village funeral.