View from a balcony
In many urban apartments throughout Southeast Asia, laundry is washed in basins by hand and hung to dry on balconies. (Learn more)
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Even in apartments with automatic washing machines, drying is done without machines because clothes dry rapidly outdoors in the tropics.
The young woman and girl here are calling down from an apartment balcony in Ho Chi Minh City’s Chinatown.
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Photographs by Margery Freeman · Text by Lorraine Aragon
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