After serving in Vietnam as a US Marine, photographer Craig Barber returns 28 years later to a country that he first saw through the haze of combat. In the Vietnamese landscape he captures the healing countryside pocked with bomb craters turned into fish-rearing ponds, metal sections from former airstrips transformed into window grates and shell casings functioning as fence posts. In a country where half the population is under 20 and has no memory of war, Barber's photographs give hope that healing and change is on the horizon.
About the book
After serving in Vietnam as a US Marine, photographer Craig Barber returns 28 years later to a country that he first saw through the haze of combat. In the Vietnamese landscape he captures the healing countryside pocked with bomb craters turned into fish-rearing ponds, metal sections from former airstrips transformed into window grates and shell casings functioning as fence posts. In a country where half the population is under 20 and has no memory of war, Barber's photographs give hope that healing and change is on the horizon.