Catherine karnow general giap autobiography

Motivation, opportunity, and a personal invitation took photographer Catherine Karnow to Vietnam for the first time in July 1990.

Catherine Karnow’s retrospective, “Vietnam: 25 Years of a Documenting a Changing Country,” spans nearly her entire career as a professional photographer.

The exhibition, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, includes photographs taken during the years of the most dramatic change seen in modern-day Vietnam, from 1990 – 2014, while on assignment for National Geographic, Smithsonian, as well as many self-assigned trips.

Karnow fell in love with photography at the age of 15.

With the support and encouragement of her first photography teacher, she quickly became a serious photographer.

After graduating from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature and semiotics and premiering her first film at the Berlin Film Festival, Karnow spent nine months in Paris trying