Digital print on archival paper. Re-printed in 2022.

Description

A landscape of the past in Võ An Khánh's photographs series is akin to a tempo that slips away from the generic discourses of the Vietnam War. Five works showcased in the Stratum Zero exhibition transcribe the lives of the military nursing units, the entertainment units, the revolutionary cadre, the Mekong Delta. The photographs exude a weirdly still and stifled air, differing from other commonly seen scenes in wartime photography journalism. 

These photographs once laid dusted in the personal collection of Võ An Khánh, until the photography journalist Dough Niven, by the end of the 1990s, stumbled across, hence which, galvanised for these works wider attention. 

Description is excerpted from "Stratum Zero" Exhibition Guide, 2023, p. 15.