The Vietnam War is framed by some as a brutal civil war and by others as a bloody climactic chapter in a century-old struggle for independence. Irrespective of historical interpretation, it was a detrimental decade of agony, where many margins of society felt suffering.  Remembered as the ‘First Television War’, Vietnam came into fruition at a crucial moment in the development of the portable camera, where war fought at far distances no longer required imagination. The camera now offered onlookers a physical, immediate proof in the form of photography, where the degree of suffering could not only be observed but felt through the works of powerful photographers.