Grim realities of war: Rare photo exhibit featuring a Singaporean's collection
An exhibition, titled Battleground Lens Photographers of Indochina Wars 1950-1975, will be featuring, for the offset time in Singapore, 80 vintage photographs taken during the heat of the three-decade war in the Southeast Asian countries of Vietnam, Kingdom of cambodia and Laos.
Co-organised by the Photographic Society of Singapore, it runs from Mar 23 to Apr 10 at Selegie Arts Centre.
The photographs come from the drove of Judd Kinne, an American-turned-Singaporean who witnessed the Vietnam War first-hand every bit a US Marine Corps infantry officer from 1967 to 1969. Kinne had been in Singapore since 1973 and acquired citizenship in 2010.
"The wars in Indochina over a 30-twelvemonth timespan had an enormous bear upon on the history of Southeast Asia and beyond," Kinne told CNA Lifestyle.
"The photographs in the exhibition relate these events and display the enormous skills and backbone of many war photojournalists roofing the conflicts who shot their pictures alongside the soldiers fighting on all sides with many killed , including three Singaporean photographers; Terence Khoo, Sam Kai Faye and Charles Chellepah."
In 1966, photographer Chellapah Canagaratnam died after stepping on a mine in what was then Saigon, while in 1972, photojournalist Terry Khoo and his colleague Sam Kai Faye were killed in an ambush past North Vietnamese.
His collection was sparked past an encounter with one of the globe's most famous war photographers, British Larry Burrows, who was on assignment for Life magazine when Kinne was in his last year in S Vietnam. Kinne would also afterwards strike up a friendship with another famous photographer, American David Douglas Duncan.
The photos of both Duncan and Burrows, as well equally other famous war photographers will be on showroom. These will look at the Starting time Indochina War between the French and the Vietnamese – including the infamous Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, which divided Vietnam into North and Due south.
The Vietnam War – or the American War, depending on who'southward telling it – is besides featured. Regarded as the first and only war without censorship, it was a time when experienced and young photographers flew downwardly and covered the conflict, sometimes in the thick of the action.
But the exhibition isn't only featuring photos from Western photographers – it volition likewise include those past photographers from the Northward Vietnamese Army, offering an alternative perspective of the wars.
Battlefield Lens Photographers of Indochina Wars 1950-1975 runs from Mar 23 to Apr 10 at Selegie Arts Centre. Free access.
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