Impact for Peace exhibition - A closer look on unexploded mine clearance

40 black and white photos taken by famous photographer Sean Sutton and the installation artworks that show mine and unexploded ordnance clearing activities conducted by Mine Advisory Group (MAG) since 1999, are to be presented to the public audience in a special exhibition named Impact for Peace from 6 - 16 October at Maison des Arts (31A Van Mieu, Hanoi).

The exhibition is expected to provide a holistic sight on positive result of mine clearing activities by MAG in Vietnam, as well as to remind the audiences of the scathe of explosive remnants and to make them more aware of the lives of people in the mine zones 35 years after the war ended.

Desire for “Peace” on each image will be spread to guests for a better world with no more mine zones waiting for clearance. To the exhibition, audiences can see that there was not only loss and damage during the war, but the destruction has continued for many years after.

Sean Sutton was formerly a photographic journalist, who has travelled around the world to various lands of war destruction such as Cambodia, Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia and Vietnam. For 20 years of his career, Sean Sutton has been attempting to reproduce the lives of local people in the former warzones after the war end. He began to work as a photographer for Mine Advisory Group (MAG), a foundation which concentrates on mine and explosive remnants clearance in the conflicting zones around the world in 1997.