Horst Faas - Part 1

In this special series, historic journalist and photographer Horst Faas discuses his career and the most dangerous international assignments he has been on throughout the world, specializing in areas of conflict, in particular Vietnam.

Faas shares some of his experience and talks about his exciting and sometimes harrowing jobs covering conflicts in Vietnam and Laos, as well as the Congo and Algeria. Faas describes his time in Algeria, about three or four months, as the most dangerous assignment he has been on because of the terroristic murders and killings in the street. The deaths were in the hundreds.

What was just to be another assignment, his trip to Vietnam turned out to become the central part of his career and a short time turned into 12 years in Vietnam for Faas. It also turned out to be a whole new chapter for him and he we will discuss it more in detail in the next installments.