Bill Burke's Gallery
Boston-based documentary photographer Bill Burke has made extensive trips throughout Southeast Asia. Browse his photographs to see how war has affected people in Vietnam and its neighboring countries, Cambodia and Laos.
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This house in Laos, on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, is built on stilts made from bomb casings, 1996.
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Burke photographed this truck overloaded with baskets in Cambodia's Siem Reap province, 1995.
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The Cinetheatre Danang, a building probably constructed by the colonial French, has been demolished since this picture was taken, c.1996. When Burke visited, a group of elder squatters lived there.
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In Phnom Penh, a man repairing roads uses a military helmet as a giant ladle for melted tar, 1994.
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A young man with a missing forearm and fingers poses in a Phnom Phen military hospital, 1995.
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This building, once the U.S. Consulate in Danang, was demolished sometime in 1998. The polaroid negative was damaged in the field, producing an unusual visual. 1994.
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A girl stands on an American bomb casing near the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1998.
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This new building in Hanoi is an example of Vietnam's modernization and the opening of the economy to multinational interests, c.1997.
