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Disturbing: Visitors view photos at the Agent Orange in Viet Nam exhibition at HCM City's War Remnants Museum. — File Photo |
HCM CITY — British photographer Phillip Jones Griffiths's photos of the consequences of the use of dioxin (Agent Orange) during the war in Viet Nam are being shown at HCM City's War Remnants Museum.
The Agent Orange in Viet Nam exhibition comprises 47 black-and-white photos featuring Vietnamese AO victims and the effects that poisonous and substance has had in the country.
Huynh Ngoc Van, director of the museum, said the exhibition would call for help from the community to aid AO victims.
The photos are also helpful to young Vietnamese who were not alive during the war, she said, adding that they demonstrated the value of peace and the need to build a stronger, healthier Viet Nam.
The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation for the Study of War will donate the photos to the museum when the exhibition ends.
Griffiths was born in Rhuddian in Wales in 1936. He studied pharmacy in Liverpool while photographing part-time for the Manchester Guardian. In 1961, he became a freelance photographer for the Observer.
He visited Viet Nam during the war against the US and later issued Viet Nam Inc containing 266 black-and-white images of the civilian perspective of the war.
In 1980, Griffiths assumed the presidency of Magnum Agency.
He revisited Viet Nam in 2003 to examine the aftermath of war, which eventually led to two books, Agent Orange and Viet Nam in Peace.
Griffiths died in West London, England, in 2008.
The Agent Orange in Viet Nam photo exhibition remains open at the museum at 28 Vo Van Tan, District 3, until January 10. — VNS