“Jungles or forests from around the world” are often “imagined [as] unaltered by human intervention. But Pao Houa Her’s [photographs] present the jungle as a place where children were born, couples married, and people became ill and died.” —Jean Dykstra

Secondhand Memory | Jean DykstraIn 1954, with the ending of French colonial rule in Southeast Asia, the Geneva Accords established Laos as an independent state, led by the Royal Laowww.nybooks.com