In 1967, Marc Riboud immortalized the pacifist protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, creating Girl with a Flower, an image that symbolizes the desire for peace. In 1970, he published Face of North Vietnam, showing Americans the faces of their adversaries for the first time. Deeply affected by the conflict, Riboud visited Vietnam almost ten times between 1966 and 1976, documenting the reality of Hanoi, Saigon, bombed Hué and the lives in refugee and re-education camps. Although not a war photographer, his lens captured the resilience of the Vietnamese people: the life that persists among the rubble, the rest in makeshift shelters, the love near the air raid shelters, the children's games. Through his reportages, Riboud told not about the war, but about the life that, despite everything, continues.
