Quote: “The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there, yet somehow step aside; to keep a cool head and keep working without getting frustrated.”

Philip Jones Griffiths
VIETNAM. The battle for Saigon.

Philip Jones Griffiths
VIETNAM. South Vietnam. Phu Me.

Philip Jones Griffiths
VIETNAM. The battle for Saigon.

Philip’s iconic work on the Vietnam War, an unprecedented work, published in 1971 under the title ‘Vietnam Inc.’ is arguably the most articulate and compelling anti-war statement made by any photojournalist ever. Indeed it led Noam Chomsky to comment that: “If anybody in Washington had read that book, we wouldn’t have had these wars in Iraq or Afghanistan”.

Philip Jones Griffiths
GB. Liverpool, School Outing.

Philip Jones Griffiths
USA. ATLANTA.

Philip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008