Adjusting The FOCUS:The Vietnam War Through the Lens of Black Combat Photographer DWIGHT CARTER
Adjusting The FOCUS:The Vietnam War Through the Lens of
Black Combat Photographer DWIGHT CARTER
May 3 - May 31, 2025.
The Gallery at Green Door Studio, 306 Millburn Avenue, Millburn, NJ 07041
“In the military, many of the most important rules go unwritten. When thinking about my time as an enlisted Vietnam War combat photographer shooting everything from grunts to generals, two of these unwritten, unspoken orders come to mind: You see nothing. You hear nothing.
My assignment was clear: Visually document what is now considered the most controversial and divisive war in American History. But the lock-and-load sounds from long search-and-destroy jungle marches remain embedded in me.”
— Dwight Carter
Vietnam is revisited 50 years after the end of the war through this never before seen photography exhibition of Black Vietnam War combat photographer Dwight Carter.
Although trained as a commercial and fashion photographer, Private First Class Dwight Carter quickly adapted to the rigors of documenting a war.
His work chronicles military life on the Long Binh base and in the battlefields with American and South Vietnamese soldiers under fire together.
In the last six months of his Vietnam tour of duty,
Dwight was assigned to MAC V Headquarters in Saigon
as the personal photographer for General Creighton Abrams, who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War. (MAC V was the equivalent to the Pentagon in Washington, DC.)
The exhibition is curated by Roger C. Tucker III.
