Aaron Joel Santos

Travel

Editorial and travel photographs shot on a variety of assignments around Asia and beyond--from the remote northern reaches of Mongolia to the beautifully dense and chaotic streets of downtown Tokyo and elsewhere in between. 

  • A woman looks out over the vast urban sprawl of Saigon at sunset.
  • Late afternoon rush hour at one of the world's most iconic crosswalks.
  • A fisherman contemplates the sea on the Jaffna Peninsula in northern Sri Lanka.
  • The Great Salt Lake.
  • Rivers and mountainscapes in Vietnam's northernmost province of Ha Giang.
  • The Shanghai skyline at dusk.
  • Farmers harvest rice on a mountainside in Sapa, Vietnam.
  • The nationwide water fight that is Songkran in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • A man walks a plank at a boat construction yard in central Vietnam.
  • Horse with the good hair in the wilds of northern Mongolia.
  • A man polishes a jade bracelet in Mandalay, Myanmar.
  • A young girl in bunny ears in the Old Quarter.
  • A fruit seller on Long Bien Bridge. Simple.
  • A view of the sprawling mountainside village of Kohima, the capital of Nagaland state in northeastern India.
  • A typical market scene in District 5. Motorbikes, makeup, mayhem.
  • A man burns incense at Thien Hau Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  • Various prayer flags in Kandy, Sri Lanka and in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • A sublime seaside scene in Fort Kochi, India.
  • A woman swims off the coast of Phu Quoc island in southern Vietnam.
  • A panorama view of karsts and boats and a man walking in Halong Bay in northern Vietnam.
  • A pinhole photograph from the coast of northern California.
  • A man drags a fishing boat in from the sea on the Jaffna Peninsula in northern Sri Lanka.
  • A young man gets splashed by a waterfall in Koh Kong, Cambodia.
  • Blue lights in an underground passage in downtown Hong Kong.
  • A young bride's Henna'd hands bearing her husband's name in Delhi, India.
  • An homage to the Japanese photographer Shōji Ueda at an onsen in northern Japan.
  • A view over the Taedong river in Pyongyang, North Korea, with the unfinished, towering Ryugyong Hotel in the background.
  • A young woman stirs a cocktail on the banks of the Saigon River.
  • Sunset at a small winery in the mountains near Inle Lake in Shan State, Myanmar.
  • Young boys swim and dive at the Keerimalai Springs, sacred pools fed by sea waters on the northern shores of the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka.
  • A woman walks through the Ban Anou night market in Vientiane, Laos.
  • Dusk and escalators in Shanghai.
  • Fishing boats off the coast of Con Dao island in southern Vietnam.
  • A man gets his mustache dyed on the streets of Kolkata, India.
  • Lek and his elephant, Bonchu, in Khao Sok in southern Thailand.
  • Artist Ye Yongqing at work on a new painting in the studio of his home in Dali City, China.
  • An older Mongolian man prepares to take part in the wrestling segment of the traditional Naadam festival in Tsagaannuur, northern Mongolia.
  • Two men attempt to break in a wild horse in northern Mongolia.
  • A group of novice Burmese monks watch a performance in a small town outside of Mandalay, Myanmar.
  • A small bamboo bridge along the Nam Khan River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
  • A fisherman takes an afternoon nap beneath a bridge on the Thu Bon river in Hoi An, Vietnam.
  • Schoolboys play a game of football in a dirt lot in Margao, India.
  • Young boys drink tea and mill about in Ha Giang province in northern Vietnam.
  • Two girlfriends with matching tattoos of their favorite Vietnamese food.
  • Typical traffic in Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • A festival boat on Inle Lake in Shan State, Myanmar.
  • A lone boat on a lonely river in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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