[Vnbiz] PHOTO EXHIBIT - Vietnam Agent Orange Campaign: On a mission to show legacy of Vietnam War

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear CACC,

FYI.

Hoanh

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nadya Williams <nadya at globalexchange.org>
Date: Sep 14, 2006 5:58 PM
Subject: PHOTO EXHIBIT - Vietnam Agent Orange Campaign: On a mission to show
legacy of Vietnam War
To: Nadya Williams - GLOBAL EXCHANGE <nadya at globalexchange.org>

Sorry for any cross-postings.

Nadya

<><><><>
Global Exchange
2017 Mission Street, Suite 303, San Francisco, CA 94110
PHONE: € Direct: (415) 575-5529 € Office: (415) 255-7296 Extension 248
€ Toll-free: (800) 497-1994 Ext. 248  FAX: (415) 255-7498
E-MAIL: nadya at globalexchange.org
WEB: www.globalexchange.org
<><><><><>

------ Forwarded Message
From: Ngô Thanh Nhàn <nhan at cs.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: vn-agentorange-owner at yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:40:06 -0400
To: vn-agentorange at yahoogroups.com, vimy <vimy at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Vietnam Agent Orange Campaign] Asahi 9.13.2006: On a mission to
show legacy of Vietnam War

Asia/ Newsmaker: On a mission to show legacy of Vietnam War
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609130118.html

09/13/2006
BY MAKOTO IGARASHI, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

SAITAMA--For the last 30 years, Japanese photojournalist Goro Nakamura
has focused on one thing: the damage done to the Vietnamese people and
their country by the U.S. use of the defoliant Agent Orange--which
contains dioxins known to be harmful to humans--during the Vietnam War.

And now, the 65-year-old photojournalist, who is based in Saitama, will
be taking his work to the United States.

The exhibition will be Nakamura's first in the country responsible for
the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

"The tragedies caused by the defoliant did not end with the generation
who suffered from it directly. They are ongoing. I want to show these
realities to as many people as I can," Nakamura said.

The exhibition, entitled "Silent Spring--Agent Orange Photographs," is
scheduled to be held at the John Jay College of the City University of
New York (CUNY) from Oct. 3 to 28.

Images to be shown in the exhibition include that of a small boy
standing in a forest of mangrove trees.

The trees have withered due to the defoliant, their branches are bare.
The photo was taken in Ca Mau Cape in the southern tip of Vietnam in
1976, a year after the war ended.

The boy is now in his 30s and bed-ridden.

Portraits of Nguyen Viet and Nguyen Duc, conjoined twins born in 1981
whose condition was blamed on exposure to the defoliant, will also be
included.

Nakamura started to take photos of the damage caused by Agent Orange in
1976.

Since 1982, he has also taken pictures of American soldiers and their
children. The soldiers had returned to the United States but were also
suffering from the aftereffects caused by use of the defoliant.

The U.S government has provided compensatory payments for these
soldiers, whose suffering has caught the imagination of the American
people. However, similar attention has not been paid to the people of
Vietnam and the damage done to their country during the war.

Nakamura made it his mission to find somewhere to show his work in the
United States. An acquaintance put him in touch with CUNY.

Nakamura is also planning to hold a larger-scale photo exhibition
elsewhere in the United States in the near future. The total cost for
the two exhibitions will amount to several million yen.

But even with these two shows Nakamura's work is not yet done.

He is also worried about the possible effects from the depleted uranium
(DU) ammunition used in Iraq by U.S. military forces.

Nakamura fears similar stories will emerge from Iraq through the use of
such shells.(IHT/Asahi: September 13,2006)



Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign (VAORRC)
P.O.Box 303 - Prince Station
New York, NY 10012-0006
Web page: http://www.vn-agentorange.org
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vn-agentorange/

<*> Your email settings:
   Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vn-agentorange/join
   (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
   mailto:vn-agentorange-digest at yahoogroups.com
   mailto:vn-agentorange-fullfeatured at yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
   vn-agentorange-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
   http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/




------ End of Forwarded Message



-- 
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
Washington DC
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.saigon.com/pipermail/vnbiz/attachments/20060914/25ed2b45/attachment.html