Tender portraits of Vietnamese youth in Berlin

Photographer Tracy Dong’s series Reassemblage portrays her chosen home among the Vietnamese diaspora in Berlin, and rectifies an act of historical erasure

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Jun 8, 2026 - 13:52
Tender portraits of Vietnamese youth in Berlin
Tracy Dong, Reassemblage

When the Vietnam War ended in 1975 and Saigon fell to the North, one of the first things Tracy Dong's father did was to burn his photographs. Recruited by the US military while in high school in Vietnam, he had served as a second lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army against the communist Viet Cong. Destroying the images did little to spare him years spent in a re-education and labour camp, but it didhellip;

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