
Robert Hodierne: Vietnam War Photographs
Robert Hodierne: Vietnam War Photographs opens September 17, 2015, through January 26, 2016, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums. Robert Hodierne (American, born 1945) was a 21-year-old freelancer when he made his first trip to Vietnam in 1966. The photographer returned in 1969 as a soldier assigned to Pacific Stars & Stripes in Saigon, where he spent another fourteen months. He returned home from Vietnam for the last time in April 1970. During those two tours he photographed combat in every corner of the country, from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that was the border with North Vietnam, to the Mekong Delta in the south, to the jungle-covered mountains of the central highlands, to the rice paddies of the central lowlands. The exhibition includes more than forty photographs from his two tours in Vietnam. Today, Hodierne continues as a photojournalist and is Associate Professor of Journalism, and Chair, Department of Journalism, University of Richmond.