District 4 of Ho Chi Minh City lies just across the river from the skyscraper-clad city centre of District 1. Here, a different city starts to emerge.

Long tied to the port and the movement of goods and people, this area grew as a place of workers and transience, dense and practical. Even now, as the city presses closer and taller around it, District 4 still carries an older rhythm: a place built to serve, to adapt, and to keep going.