Photo story: 3 of 8
Black Picture - 3rd prize
The Vietnamese Boat People. Stranded on an eastern beach where they had arrived several weeks earlier, these boat people are kept behind barbed wire and under armed guard as they wait to be put back to sea.
The Vietnamese Boat People. A refugee boat filled with human cargo arrives.
The Vietnamese Boat People. A man tries to comfort his sick wife on board a recently arrived refugee boat.
The Vietnamese Boat People. On board a recently arrived refugee boat, a very ill mother still worries about feeding her children.
The Vietnamese Boat People. On board, tired and exhausted refugees wait to come ashore.
The Vietnamese Boat People. A father and child wait while officials decide their future at a dockside warehouse.
The Vietnamese Boat People. The refugee compound at the government dockyard, where daily boat-loads of refugees arrive from Vietnam. Here, they come ashore for the first time to wash and then are interviewed by the officials deciding their future.
Color Picture - 1st prize
Terry Fincher
Photographers International
01 January, 1979
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1980 Photo Contest
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