Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

The Images and Memories of War

A BBC Interview with Don McCullin

By Don McCullin

For 30 years, Don McCullin's CV as a photographer read like a chronology of global conflict from the Vietnam War in the 1960s to Beirut in the 1980s. Now, McCullin is famous also for photographing the beautiful landscapes around his Somerset home in England. In an interview for the BBC Radio 4 programme Open Country, McCullin says that there's a big change from war, destruction and death on a grand scale to the quiet beauty of Somerset.

Leaving Saigon

Thirty Years After the End of the War

By Arnold R. Isaacs

Thirty years since April '75—good grief. It seems almost too trite to say, but it doesn't seem that it could possibly have been that long ago. Every April reminds me of the end of the Vietnam war, this one more than most, not just because of the round number but because of an encounter with the past that I had just a couple of weeks before the actual anniversary. The following ruminations are longer than I intended, but here they are anyway.

The Best Word for Coming Home is "Dislocation"

By Johnathan Charles

Jonathan Charles talks about about the challenges of coming home from hostile environments.

Camp Z30-D: The Survivors

By Anh Do, Tran Phan, and Eugene Garcia

Written with grace and restraint, these stories of Vietnamese men and women imprisoned for “re-education” reveal their suffering in the camp and their struggles as refugees in the U.S. Originally published in the Orange County Register on April 29, 2001.