Abstract
Throughout my adult life I have used photography as a way to work through the wounds and scars from the American War in Viet Nam.1 I first took photographs during the war as a way to remember where I was in 1968–1969 and process what was happening to me and to the land. My first return visit to Viet Nam was in February 1989. In Sai Gon I encountered Amerasian children and adults, literally coming face to face with the human legacy of the war. One photograph in particular stuck with me: that of a mother and her two sons, obviously fathered by two different American soldiers. (See figure 1.) Since 1989, I have been traveling and living part time in Viet Nam making photographs of the land, people, and places. In May 2006 I returned to the small village of Lai Khe, the site of my 1968 wartime base camp. By rephotographing images I made in 1968, I unexpectedly finally found the healing I had been seeking. The war will always be an important part of my life, but it no longer dominates my life.
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