Category: Vietnam War

Jungle fronds crowd the frame as helmeted soldiers move cautiously through dense undergrowth, their rifles angled toward an unseen threat. In the foreground, a body lies sprawled with an arm raised, a stark, unsettling counterpoint to the tense motion behind it. Packs, canteens, and gear hang from shoulders, emphasizing the weight of long patrols and…

Under a roadside banner reading “BON VOYAGE,” a column of uniformed men walks away from the camera, framed by palm trees and a corridor of onlookers. The crowd lines both sides of the road, creating the uneasy feeling of a send-off that is equal parts ceremony and farewell. Even without knowing the exact place or…

Along a campus road at Kent State University, a crowd of students gathers in a loose ring beneath bare spring branches, their bodies angled toward the center as if listening, arguing, or chanting. Several arms rise above the heads—some clenched in fists, others gesturing mid-sentence—while classmates on the edges watch with folded arms or hands…

From above, the Kent State University commons reads like a stark diagram of confrontation: a long line of police stretches across the grass while pale clouds of tear gas billow and drift, breaking the open campus into zones of danger and uncertainty. Scattered student protesters and onlookers stand at varying distances, some edging forward, others…

Across an open campus parking lot, a crowd of Kent State University students moves in a loose line, their strides and turned heads suggesting urgency as an antiwar demonstration unfolds in Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970. Parked cars fill the foreground while a tall academic building and bare spring trees rise behind them, grounding…

Beneath the gold dome of the Massachusetts State House, a dense crowd of students gathers on the steps and lawn, turning a seat of government into an open-air forum. Hand-lettered signs rise above heads, while people spill across the terraces and up toward the colonnade, where onlookers stand in clusters. The American flag to the…

A scuffed combat helmet fills the frame, its hand-lettered message—“GOD WAIKS WITH ME”—standing out like a whispered prayer amid the noise of war. In the foreground, a young soldier’s profile is caught in a quiet, inward moment, while another figure behind him smokes, half-softened by the shallow focus. The closeness of the shot makes the…

Helmet scuffs, sweat, and a steady profile tell the story of a soldier moving through the Vietnam War with his rifle close and his thoughts closer. On the steel dome above his brow, the hand-marked words “OUR GOD” sit over a simple cross, a blunt declaration etched into everyday gear. A small bottle—likely a field…

Night over Ninh Hòa is torn open by a harsh, man-made glow, turning the low horizon into a band of fire and smoke. Brilliant flares hang in the air like falling stars, their light pooling across open ground and picking out the silhouettes of trees and scrub. The color and grain suggest a battlefield seen…

Bare-chested in the heat and moving at a sprint, Brian Mowatt guides Prince through an exercise course at the Army sentry dog kennels in Nha Trang, Vietnam. The moment is all motion: the handler’s arm extended to direct, the German Shepherd launching cleanly over a blue obstacle, sand kicked up under boots and paws. Behind…