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    More information about "Nguyen Huu An (left), 5 years old and Nguyen Thi Than Tuyen, 3 years old with their mother in Huong Xuan near Hue. The father lived in the Agent Orange infected province Song Be."

    Nguyen Huu An (left), 5 years old and Nguyen Thi Than Tuyen, 3 years old with their mother in Huong Xuan near Hue. The father lived in the Agent Orange infected province Song Be.

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    The herbicide Agent Orange and its Dioxin are in the food chains. Result: thousands

    and thousands of disabled human beings. Altough scientists here and there are

    discussing what is proven and what is not - it does not change the fact that the victims

    do exist. As far as I know even he US gouvernement has meanwhile accepted the link

    between dioxins and these victims. By the way also many US soldiers and their

    descentants are affected by this problem.

    More information about "Nguyen Huu An (left), 5 years old and Nguyen Thi Than Tuyen, 3 years old with their mother in Huong Xuan near Hue. The father lived in the Agent Orange infected province Song Be."

    Nguyen Huu An (left), 5 years old and Nguyen Thi Than Tuyen, 3 years old with their mother in Huong Xuan near Hue. The father lived in the Agent Orange infected province Song Be.

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    Hello. Thanks for your interest and comments in this photograph. I'm sorry for my

    long absence but I'm not very activ in this forum anymore.

     

    I took the photographs in 1999 as assignement of several Swiss NGOs. We made a

    book and quite a lot of exhibitions and many features for newspapers and

    magazines. Goal was to enlighten people and to rise money (and it rised quite a lot).

    The serie won a first price in Swiss Press Photo Award in 2000.

    I think it is one of the strongest photographs I ever took and I like that it has a

    strong social and political impact. Many people don't like this fact, but I'm not

    interested to take photographs which look nice, but are, on the other side, meaningless . The only weak point the photograph has in my opinion is that I cut off

    the fingers of Nguyen Thi Than Tuyen. On the other side, to have her fingers in the

    picture could be at the cost of the balance of the whole compostiton.

     

    To Keith: no, I'm not aware of the work of James Caccavo, but I know the book of

    Philip Jones Griffiths ( "Agent Orange, "Collateral Damage" in Vietnam") which came

    out in 2003.

    More information about "In the rehabilitation center for disabled children in Thuy An, near Hanoi, children whose parents fought in Agent Orange infected regions are cared."

    In the rehabilitation center for disabled children in Thuy An, near Hanoi, children whose parents fought in Agent Orange infected regions are cared.

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    Hello. Thanks for your comments so far. I?m abroad right now and have only little time to answer. The Agent Orange project was financed by different NGOs (Swiss and vietnamese Rerd Cross, Caritas and Terre des Hommes) and was used for fund rising. So no "entrance fees" had to be payed to meet this victims.

    Cheers, Roland

    More information about "Tu-Du-Hospital in Ho-Chi-Minh-City. Hundreds of preparations of born and unborn children are kept in a small room. Many of them originate from provinces which were attacked by defoliants during the war."

    Tu-Du-Hospital in Ho-Chi-Minh-City. Hundreds of preparations of born and unborn children are kept in a small room. Many of them originate from provinces which were attacked by defoliants during the war.

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    Hi Tony, Hi Steve,

     

    I really appreciate your comments. I think in context to the other three photographs of this room I posted here, this one works - it gives you an idea of the quantity of preparations with dead babies you can see in this room. As a single photograph, this one wouldn't really function.

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