Requiem - by the Photographers who died in Vietnam and Indochina

YK’s 2-Cents: 




Exhibition at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) Galleries 1 and 2


I stayed at the exhibition for over 2 hours.  


The photographs have also been published in a book of the same title.  Despite almost 336 pages of professionally taken photographs, this is seriously not a coffee table.

Balancing act trained by Minimalism

Pierre Jahan
Tonkin, Vietnam, 1952

Operation Mercure: Civilians drafted into a local militia carry supplies.

(SIRPA/ECPA)

No man - alive or dead - left behind

 

© Henri Huet, Vietnam, 1966 (AP)

This picture appeared in many newspapers around the world and in Life magazine on Feb 11, 1966.

They have become part of an unforgettable sequence of one man’s dedication in tending fellow soldiers worse off than he.

Wearing a body bandage over the left side of his face, young medic Private First Class Thomas Cole of Richmond, Va., cradles the head of Staff Sergeant Harrison C. D. Pell from Hazleton, Pa., of the First Cavalry Division, as he feeds C rations to him, then carefully wiped his face.

Henri Huet

War Zone C, Vietnam, 1966

The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is lifted to an evacuation helicopter. (AP)

No Buddha left behind

Sou Vichith

Cambodia, 1974

A soldier of the Cambodian government army removes the wooden statue of a Buddha from a destroyed village temple. (Gamma)

No cats and rooster left behind

Tea Kim Heang

Siem Reap, Cambodia 1974

Cambodian girl with her father’s rifle at a marshaling point. (AP)

No dog left behind

Thong Veasna

Prek Phnou, Cambodia, 1975

A Cambodian boy travelling with his father, who is with a unit of Cambodian government troops. (AP)

No kettles left behind

Michel Laurent

Apr 1975

Northwest of Saigon, Vietnam

Vietnamese refugees flee toward the capital as the north vietnamese close in on saigon. (Gamma)

BUT missing photographers and some dead ones were left behind