Featured Exhibit:

"Face to Face: Images from a Different War"

As Chief Announcer for Armed Forces Vietnam Radio Network, I had lots of free time on my hands. So in 1967 I bought my first “serious” camera at the Army PX outside of Saigon and started documenting the anguish and the dignity of ordinary Vietnamese people caught in the crosshairs of History. I was 20 years old.

Upon returning to “the world” I stashed the 700+ Ektachrome slides in a cardboard shoebox where they lay moldering in damp cellars as I moved on into a life of broadcast journalism and teaching.

Yet decades later, when I could no longer ignore the filmy memories of the faces lurking my basement, I gathered the emotional strength to revisit those slides, but by that time they were faded and mildewed beyond any hope, I thought, of resurrection. Yet the past continued to pull me to those haunting images until 2004 when I decided to dedicate an entire year to digitally repairing and remastering these images of a heretofore ignored chapter of American—and my own personal—History.

Articles about the Face to Face Exhibit have appeared in:

The Rochester New York Democrat and Chronicle

The Canandaigua, New York Daily Messenger

The Brighton, New York Brighton-Pittsford Post

The Veteran, published nationally by the Vietnam Veterans of America

Between the Lines, monthly newsletter of Rochester New York’s Chapter 20, VVA

"Face to Face: Images from a Different War"