Telling views of death in Vietnam

For the MTV generation, war is generally a concept to be experienced viscerally through a shoot-'em-up PC game or big bucks special effects extravaganza (

There's no blood or twisted limbs, when it's game over you just go again and the good guy usually gets the girl - unless of course he dies, a noble, dignified and photogenic death.

What we're missing out on is the sheer unmediated brutality of conflict. Requiem - The Exhibition celebrates the tradition of war photography, seen through the lens of men and women who lived - and died - through the conflicts they recorded.

For Requiem features the work of some 134 photographers who were killed or reported missing in Vietnam and Indochina between the 1950's and 1975.

With over 200 images covering some of the bloodiest conflicts of the last 50 years, those of Vietnam and Indochina, the exhibition culminates in the harrowing fall of Saigon and Phnom Penh in 1975.

The images have been chosen out of a total of 10,000 by Vitnam photographers Tim Page and Horst Faas, himself a double Pulitzer Prize winner.

Bucolic images of a rural way of life unchanged for centuries stand in stark contrast to those of a land and people ravaged by brutal hellish war. Always thought-provoking, often disturbing, Requiem - The Exhibition marks the opening of the Proud Gallery's new North London venue.

The horror of war - slide gallery

Requiem - The Exhibition is at Proud Camden Moss from 13 July to 16 September. Open from 10am to 7pm every day, admission £3 (concessions £2).