BOMBSHELLS TO COWBELLS (1997-2002)
Between 1964 and 1973 the American Air Force dropped two million tons of bombs on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, an important supply line for the North Vietnamese army through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The jungle is still sown with bomb fragments, and unexploded bombs still claim victims among those who try to recover them for scrap. For the Montagnards, an isolated mountain tribe that lives along the former Ho Chi Minh Trail, the bombardment came as a complete surprise at the time. Today the remnants of the war are interwoven with their everyday life. The war material that once threatened their lives now is used as boats, flowerpots, tools or building material, as seen in BOMBSHELLS TO COWBELLS (1997-2002).
