Announcing the Winner of the Photographer of the Week – Week 25, 2026

At night, the city doesn't close — it opens differently. The interior spills outward. A shop becomes a living room. A sidewalk becomes a workshop. Ordinary gestures, usually hidden behind walls, become briefly visible from the street.

Shot discreetly with a compact camera and existing light, Public Interiors is drawn to these lit margins: storefronts, inhabited façades, improvised stalls that punctuate the dark. Not the spectacular Vietnam of travel photography, but the unremarkable one — between neon and bare bulbs, the series looks for the small overlap between the intimate, the commercial, and the collective.

Bivina Night is one such margin: a seafood grill in Tuy Hoa, Phú Yên, caught mid-evening. The corrugated facade glows green under its own bare bulbs. A cook works behind a hatch. A vendor stands at a cart. Nothing is posed. Everything is already there.

From Hanoi to Châu Đốc, via Ho Chi Minh City and Tuy Hòa — cities where interiors are never entirely private.