For a thousand years, until the 1990s, Hanoi remained much the same, its history being enriched mainly with layers of opacity, not revolution. Josh Levine lived there as a business journalist during Vietnam's rapid transitional period, watching a millennium of tradition crumble, sometimes making way for something better, sometimes not. After several years of digital experimentation for Josh to be able to share, photographically, what he actually saw, resulting in these startlingly unique images of yesterday's Vietnam.