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Call for photographs

Do you have any old photographs, film footage, or artefacts that tell the story of the Vietnamese migrants to other countries from 1975 and across the decades that followed?

If so, we would love to hear from you. 

We are interested in photographs and old film footage that can potentially be edited into our final production that tell the compelling stories of Vietnamese migration. There is something extremely powerful about old family photographs and films. We are particularly interested in material illustrating: 

 

  • Migrant journeys from Vietnam e.g., of boat people, refugee camps, other ways of leaving, etc. 

  • Operation Babylift and the international adoptees

  • Welcome camps and Vietnamese migrants' early life in their settlement countries

  • Gaining citizenship

  • Building new lives through educational success, careers and setting up family businesses particularly in food, etc.  

  • Food and cooking, in the family or as a chef, or restaurateur

  • Life today across the generations

If you can help, please contact Thuy Hoang at t.h.hoang.piano@gmail.com

The images below have been used courtesy the Hoang family.

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Cooking in the UK, 1980s

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Leaving for the UK, Than Son Nhat Airport, 1981

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Women at Sunshine House, Gosport, UK (Ockenden Venture "welcome camp"), 1981

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Thuy's family, Westminster Bridge, London, 1980s

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Saigon, 1952

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Thuy with her family, 1980s

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