
| Nguyen Ngoc Hanh was the official war photographer for the Republic of Viet Nam until his country was invaded by North Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Mr. Hanh was sent to a re-education camp for eight years, during which time he was specifically tortured by the Communist regime. He was released due to international pressure, and escaped from the country as a Boat Person in 1987. This award-winning artist -- portraiture is his special talent -- earned the Photographer of the Year for the USA in 1968 because of his images of the Tet Offensive and the seige of Khe Sanh. His book (shown here), in Vietnamese (Khoi Lua) and English (Vietnam in Flames) editions, was published by South Vietnam in 1969 with photos also by Nguyen Manh Dan. photos and biography by Jean Libby, editor, VietAm Review Mr. Hanh at the Oakland Museum of California photo by Ky Truong, Tieng Dan Weekly News Text Biography of Nguyen Ngoc Hanh in pdf |
| Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hanh is still a working photographer at over the age of eighty. He exhibits regularly in festivals around the country, and teaches master classes in his home at San Jose, California. In June 2007 Mr. Hanh has a retrospective exhibit at the community room of the Nguoi Viet newspaper in Westminster. He is pictured here with Nguyen Chi Thien, another prisoner of the Communist regime of Vietnam. Photo by Peter Bui of Cali Fine Art, June 2008. |
| Mr. Hanh at the television interview telling his primary source story of the Tet Offensive of 1968 for The History Channel. Unfortunately, even though Mr. Hanh was selected among the Top Ten PSA Photographers of 1968 for his war coverage of the Tet Offensive, his taped interview was not shown in the final production. |




