Photographer Recalls His Formative Years in Vietnam

Tim Page revisits a conflict that was defined by photography.

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Now based in Brisbane, Australia, Tim Page was just 20 years old when he started photographing the Vietnam conflict in 1965. For the next five years, he would freelance for Life, Paris Match, AP and UPI, somehow escaping the fate that befell 135 killed and missing comrades.

It’s a chapter that Page, on this 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war, has powerfully revisited via Newsweek essay. Here’s a taste:

We who survive have one foot in nostalgia.

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