Black Picture, 3rd prize
Terry Fincher
Photographers International
Photographers International
01 January, 1979
The Vietnamese Boat People. Stranded on an eastern beach where they had arrived several weeks earlier, these boat people are kept behind barbed wire and under armed guard as they wait to be put back to sea.
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