© Bob Plotkin / X-Pedition Hanoi 2022
We’re doing something different this spring
Spring 2027 brings a new kind of X-Pedition — documentary, thematic, and built to publish.
Most travel photography workshops take you to a place. This one puts you on a story.
X-Pedition: Assignment Vietnam is a documentary workshop built around a single theme — one that shapes every shoot, every critique, every edit. You work alongside a field editor, a local fixer with deep community access and a veteran magazine editor who reviews your work before, during and after the trip. You go home with a cohesive body of work published in a professionally-designed zine. The assignment changes each year. In Spring 2027, we're documenting how Hanoi feeds itself — from the Red River Delta to the Old Quarter.
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Meet Molly
Assignment Vietnam project editor Molly Roberts is an award-winning visuals editor with 30 years of experience at National Geographic, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post magazines. She brings that editorial eye to our spring workshop — guiding participants through selecting, sequencing, and editing their images into a publishable body of work. A longtime juror for Pictures of the Year International and the ASME National Magazine Awards, she knows what it takes to turn strong photographs into a story that holds.
X-Peditions Student Work
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![An elderly woman practicing Tai Chi by a lake at sunset, with city buildings in the background and flowers in the foreground.]()
© Larry Mah
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![A woman wearing a conical hat and a red shirt stands indoors against a brick wall, with sunlight casting a shadow on her.]()
© Glenn de Souza
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![An elderly man playing a bamboo flute indoors with a gray background and traditional Asian musical instruments hanging on the wall behind him.]()
© Brian Mosley
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© Mary Dahl
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![Street market scene with vendors selling food and goods, people riding bikes and scooters, and storefronts under umbrellas and string lights.]()
© Larry Gassan
