"The radio team of a North Vietnamese attack group photographed during the offensive on the city of Quang Tri in 1970. An explosion has just gone off in the background, and three troops advance through the smoke. A soldier takes aim to provide covering fire, while the two men in the foreground, with stoic concentration on their faces, attempt to use the radio amid the chaos of battle.
When Quang Tri was still the South's border with North Vietnam, it suffered a major attack in the January 1968 Tet Offensive, when Communist troops briefly occupied the provincial capital, Quang Tri City. Later, in 1972, the city was again captured by North Vietnamese forces, although this occupation was also short-lived. Finally in 1975, the entire province fell following the last North Vietnamese offensive of the war. The North Vietnamese Provisional Revolutionary Government laid claim to the province: collective farms were put in place and strict rules were enforced on the villagers, many of whom eventually fled.
The Vietnam War provided the most extensive access to battlefields for journalists and photographers. But it was the work of American, British, and French photojournalists that was viewed all over the world. What was happening on the other side of the Hill? These previously unpublished pictures reveal how the war was captured by North Vietnamese photographers, Doan Cong Tinh, Mai Nam, Hua Kiem. ‘Western photographers wanted to show the horror of the war, and wanted to stop it. But these ones wanted to prove that they could defeat the Americans, that they could win the war,' says photographer Patrick Chauvel, the man who brought the images to light…"
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