[CNN] This haunting portrait reveals the suppressed history of marriages lon

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📌 标题:This haunting portrait reveals the suppressed history of marriages long considered taboo

📅 发布时间:Updated Jul 14, 2026, 2:11 AM ET

📝 英文原文:
EDITOR’S NOTE:InSnap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made.Beneath a diaphanous white veil, four family members sit together on tan leather chairs, the woman in the center holding a baby in her arms. They gaze pointedly at the viewer, their concealed-yet-visible state a potent metaphor. Now in their 60s, they are the children born from a Japanese soldier and Vietnamese wife in the years that Japan occupied Vietnam during World War II. Like others born from these taboo unions, they have dealt with social hardships and the lifelong absence of their father. Though some troops stayed after the war, many families faced forced separation by the mid-1950s, when soldiers were required to return.That was the case for the family of Lê Thị Xuân and Yoshiharu Shimizu (whose Vietnamese name is Nguyễn Văn Đức), who had two sons and one daughter, pictured above. When photographer Phan Quang took this portrait of the siblings in 2014, the family spanned four generations – including a great-grandchild seated on the woman’s lap. The image belongs to a larger multiyear series, “Re/cover,” which Phan embarked on to tell these families’ stories and completed a decade ago. In each of the portraits, his subjects are draped by the white veil, both a symbol of matrimony and silence. Part of the work is exhibiting at the Rencontres d’Arles photo festival in France this summer and fall.Because of Japan’s occupation, including its military’s harrowing history of sexual slavery through “comfort women,” any union between Japanese soldiers and Vietnamese women endured extreme prejudice.In “Re/cover” Phan sought out the families born from mutual consent and love, whose stories were untold.“Japanese soldiers who married local women were often looked down upon by their peers, as these women came from what was then seen as a ‘lesser’ country,” Phan said. “On the other hand, their Vietnamese wives and children were

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🇨🇳 中文翻译:
编者注:在 InSnap 中,我们着眼于单张照片的力量,记录了有关现代和历史图像如何制作的故事。在透明的白色面纱下,四名家庭成员一起坐在棕褐色皮椅上,中间的女人怀里抱着一个婴儿。他们目光锐利地凝视着观众,他们隐藏但可见的状态是一个有力的隐喻。他们现在已经60多岁了,是日本占领越南时期一名日本士兵和越南妻子所生的孩子



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