The Wartime Photography of Võ An Khánh at Mangrove Theatre

Type:Exhibition

6 West Street, St. Phillips, Bristol, Bristol, BS2 0BH

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Võ An Khánh, A song and dance class in the Southwestern region, which had begun in 1970 and lasted more than one year since the students had to simult

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Mangrove Theatre presents the first European monographic exhibition of the work of Võ An Khánh (1936–2023, Vietnam), who is best known for his striking black and white photographs of the American-Vietnam War during the 1960s and early 1970s, and their testament to human resilience.

Throughout the Vietnam War, which this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the War and the reunification of the country, Võ documented the hidden lives of communist guerrilla fighters and their communities living throughout the country's mangrove forests, portraying the front line of the Vietnamese resistance against the US in the Ca Mau region. Between the years 1962 and 1975, Võ staged a photographic exhibition in the exceptionally challenging condition of mangrove forests and developed his...Read More

About

Mangrove Theatre presents the first European monographic exhibition of the work of Võ An Khánh (1936–2023, Vietnam), who is best known for his striking black and white photographs of the American-Vietnam War during the 1960s and early 1970s, and their testament to human resilience.

Throughout the Vietnam War, which this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the War and the reunification of the country, Võ documented the hidden lives of communist guerrilla fighters and their communities living throughout the country's mangrove forests, portraying the front line of the Vietnamese resistance against the US in the Ca Mau region. Between the years 1962 and 1975, Võ staged a photographic exhibition in the exceptionally challenging condition of mangrove forests and developed his negatives in the field, storing them in ammunition boxes with rice to absorb moisture.

Every frame captures an impossible moment. Children attend lessons in jungle classrooms designed to be quickly disassembled to maintain cover. Women in ascetic uniforms perform balletic leaps across flooded fields. Medics operate knee-deep in swamp water - a scene of wartime surrealism that Hollywood studios spend fortunes attempting to recreate. With limited exposures per film cartridge, every shot demanded precision. The result is a collection of images that possess the compositional rigour of cinema and the candor of photojournalism.

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Dates 24 June 2025 - 21 Sept 2025
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Monday - Sunday12:00 - 05:00

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