Võ An Khánh (b. 1939 in Ninh Quới; d. 2023 in Bạc Liêu) captured documentary photographs while traveling with a guerilla unit of the Northern Vietnamese Army that was stationed in the Mekong Delta and Ca Mau peninsula. They depict bare, defoliated mangrove trees impacted by the spread of Agent Orange; masked revolutionaries concealing their identities from each other in case of capture; a victim of US bombing being carried to an improvised operating room in a swamp; and a meeting of the National Liberation Front’s Propaganda Department, which Khánh took from above. Khánh often climbed the trees of the mangrove forest to capture his images. He stored film in a metal ammunition box using rice as a natural desiccant and developed his photographs in natural light.
