Võ An Khánh was born in 1936, in the village of Ninh Quới in Hồng Dân District, Bạc Liêu Province, south-western Vietnam. During the 1960s and early 1970s, he traveled with a guerrilla unit of the North Vietnamese army to document the front line of the Vietnamese resistance against the U.S. in the Cà Mau region. He also managed the Photography Department of the local revolutionary cause and documented events related to frontline music and dance events. He also wrote propaganda texts.This is a rare set of documentary images of Vietnam from the 1960s and 70s, made by an insider who had access to the everyday lives of the South Vietnamese resistance in the Mekong Delta. These images show a different side to the Vietnam war - not the war spectacles, but the covert scouts, medics, musical ensembles and printing department workers who survive in the sheltering mangrove forests.
