A young dead North Vietanamese soldier with his possessions

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Don McCullin

 · 14 Apr 2019

' I've only ever played with the truth once....I saw two American soldiers hunting for souvenirs from the body of a North Vietnamese soldier...When they'd finished what I regarded as looting and had marred his few possession, I was disgusted....I hated them and yet I was part of them, I was sharing their food, their uniform, their daily lives.
They trampled on his possessione, his pictures of his mother, his sister, the little snapshots of seated children.... He deserved a voice. He couldn't speak so I was going to do it for him. I shovelled his belongings together and photographed them. That's the only contrived picture I've taken in a war'

1968

Don McCullin