Mangrove Horizons Exhibition
Mangrove Photo Gallery
32 photographs from the Mangrove Horizons exhibition follow the life of a mangrove forest in the Mekong Delta and along Vietnam's coast, from a single seedling to the women and communities who plant, protect and live with it.
From Roots to Horizons
Please walk slowly. A mangrove forest cannot be understood at a glance.
This exhibition follows one seedling. It begins in the canopy and the mud, where fruits and propagules hang from the branches, buds open in the leaves, and breathing roots rise from the tidal flats. It is quiet, patient life that has already made a long journey by water.
Then come the hands. Women in conical hats fill soil bags, lay out thousands of seedlings, and wade into tidal water to set young trees beside bamboo stakes. From above, their work looks like mosaic. From close up, it is simply care, repeated for years.
Next is the working delta: fishers rowing along the forest edge, a coracle beneath a bamboo lift net, boats at dawn loaded with bundles. Here the forest is not scenery. It is livelihood, food, shelter and home.
The last frames ask the hardest question. A leaning tree stands in flood water. Saplings lean on their stakes against a wide, open horizon. The sea rises, and the forest has to keep up.
As you look, ask yourself: who is missing from these pictures, and who needs to be in the room?
Photographs and contributors: the Women4Mangrove project, the "Strong Roots, Strong Women" project, photographer Truong Phu Quoc, Pham Thi Dieu My, Mangrove Horizons, the University of Zurich, UEH and ISCM. The exhibition was presented at the Mangrove Symposium 2026.
Photo Gallery
Mangrove Horizons in 32 Photographs
Seedlings and nurseries, the hands that plant them, the working delta and the rising sea. Click any photo to view it full screen.
