Philip Jones Griffiths: A Dark Odyssey
On Tuesday 27 March, celebrated photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths opened the 2007 Magnum Photographers Lecture Series at the Royal Geographical Society with a gripping view of war and peace in Vietnam.
Introduced by internationally acclaimed author and broadcaster Charles Glass, Philip gave a compelling documentation of devastation and development in Southeast Asia, revealing anecdotes and imagery from his three books: Vietnam Inc., Agent Orange and Vietnam at Peace.
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Guests were invited to view an exhibition of photographs by street children in Vietnam and orphans in Cambodia trained in photojournalism skills by PhotoVoice.
SIGNED COPIES OF AGENT ORANGE and VIET NAM AT PEACE AVAILABLE TO BUY!
PhotoVoice is delighted to announce that Trolley Books have generously agreed to continue their offer to donate 30% of the sale price of signed copies of Agent Orange and Viet Nam at Peace to PhotoVoice. For your copy, please contact jo@photovoice.org or call 020 70333878
Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Viet Nam
Philip Jones Griffiths
Price: £25, Delivery: £8
In 1960 the United States war machine concluded that an efficient deterrent to the enemy troops and civilians would be the devastation of the crops and forestry that afforded them both succour and cover for their operations. They had developed herbicides for the task. The most infamous became known as Agent Orange after the coloured stripe on the canisters used to distribute it. The planes that carried the canisters had 'only we can prevent forests!' as a logo on their fuselages. They were right. It was very effective.Unfortunately the herbicide also contained Dioxin, probably the world's deadliest poison. In Agent Orange Philip Jones Griffiths has photographed the children and grandchildren of the farmers whose faces were lifted to the gentle rain of the poison cloud.
Viet Nam at Peace
Philip Jones Griffiths
Price: £40, Delivery: £10
Philip Jones Griffiths, the author of Vietnam Inc. and Agent Orange: "Collateral Damage" in Viet Nam, has visited Viet Nam 25 times since the end of the war. The first Westerner to travel by road from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City after the war, and later the Ho Chi Minh trail, he has amassed an unparalleled photographic record of the post-war transformation of the country.From the first days of terrible hardships, as the joys of victory were quickly tempered by the reality of the extent of the destruction wreaked by the war, and the crippling effects of the US embargo, he has recorded an uncomfortably comprehensive view of the aftermath of war.He has witnessed the limbless heroes, the Amerasian children, the boat people, and the re-emergence of the social problems of prostitution and drug addiction as the country embraces consumerism.
Lecture Images:© Kyna Gourley