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Article: ART REVIEW; A prayer in photos; In a new show, St. Paul photographer Petronella Ytsma bears witness to lingering tragedies of the Vietnam War.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 25, 2009
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Byline: MARY ABBE; STAFF WRITER
Vietnam was "my coming-of-age war," said St. Paul photographer Petronella J. Ytsma. Haunted by the conflict's impact on both the United States and the country where it was fought, Ytsma has made two trips to Vietnam in the past three years. There she photographed Vietnamese people whose bodies show the effects of Agent Orange, a herbicide that U.S. military forces used to defoliate the forests and fields of Vietnam. From 1961 to 1971, the military sprayed more than 20 million gallons of herbicide. Decades later Vietnamese children are still being born mentally disabled and with hideous birth defects -- eyeless, with swollen ...