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 to 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 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.