Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths was born in Wales in 1936. He launched his career as a free-lance writer for Britain's Observer newspaper in 1961. He covering the Algerian war in 1962 before traveling across central Africa. In a career that took Philip to more than 120 countries, he covered everything from Buddhism in Cambodia, drought in India, poverty in Texas or the legacy of the Gulf war in Kuwait. From 1966 to 1971, he reported on the Vietnam war, publishing a photojournalism book focused on the suffering of civilians, "Vietnam Inc", which helped turn US public opinion against the conflict. For a 2003 book, "Agent Orange", he turned his camera upon the impact of the defoliant used by the US military on post-war generations in Vietnam. Philip Jones Griffiths' work was the subject of a US exhibition in 2005 and 2006 titled "50 years on the Frontline". He died at his home in England, where he had been suffering from cancer.