In 1967 my father, Bill Farmer, a civilian advisor to the U.S. military stationed in Vietnam, got a new camera and proceeded to capture the South Vietnam of his era. After his death the slides he shot were sent to his brother, Tom, in the United States and remained hidden for more than 25 years.

These were resurrected in the Summer of 1998. From these slides I have printed Polaroid Emulsion Transfer prints, a process where the images are printed on Polaroid film and then literally skinned off its paper base and attached to a new surface, in this case, a hand-made paper called Coconut Sage. Most of the titles are from Papa's original steno pad listing the more than 350 slides from his travels.