During the Vietnam War, An-My Le lived with her family in Saigon in the southern part of the country. It was April 1975, the tense days before the city fell to the North Vietnamese, and there was a ...

An-My Lê was a teen-ager when her family was evacuated from Vietnam, in 1975, aboard an American military-transport plane. The family settled in California, where Lê began to practice photography as a ...

An-My Lê doesn’t identify as a war photographer. Though her body of work across the last three decades deals largely with themes of human conflict, it’s not the act of combat itself she is most ...

Sailors train with a fire hose in An-My Lê's 2009 photograph "Damage Control Training, USS Nashville, Dakar, Senegal." (© An-My Lê. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris ...

“An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain,” a new photography exhibition, opens Friday, Dec. 3 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and it is the first comprehensive show of work by Vietnamese-born American ...

An-My Lê, “Explosion” (1999–2002, from the series “Small Wars”), gelatin silver print (© An-My Lê, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery) PITTSBURGH — An-My Lê was born in Saigon in 1960.

Though the earliest photographs from An-My Lê’s ongoing body of work “Silent General” were taken in 2016 and ‘17, they’re hard to distinguish from the images filling TV screens and Twitter feeds today ...

The artist reflects on witnessing war up close — and then photographing it at a distance. By Will Matsuda The artist An-My Lê insists that she doesn’t photograph war. For much of her career, Lê has ...

Vietnamese American photographer An-My Le is one of 63 artists selected for this year's Whitney Biennial. Her new work was shot in Louisiana. During the Vietnam War, An-My Le lived with her family in ...