Exhibition in Hanoi of AP's most powerful images from the Vietnam War

If you’re in Hanoi before June 26, pop by the Exhibition Hall at 45 Trang Tien St downtown for an exhibition of some of the most powerful and grim images of the Vietnam War era, shot by the photographers of the Associated Press (AP). Marking 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, the exhibition includes Malcolm Browne’s shot of Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, self-immolating on a Saigon street corner, Nick Ut’s haunting 1972 Pulitzer Prize winning image of a young, burnt, girl fleeing a napalm attack, as well as many others. The images were important in shaping international opinion about the US war in Vietnam. If you visit after visiting some of Hanoi’s museums, you’ll note the contrasting neutral tone of the images and their captions. War historians will also note the absence of any reference to the Viet Cong or the National Liberation Front (NLF) - curiously, captions I saw refer to the civilian guerrilla fighters of the south, as North Vietnamese.