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Most adoption stories are about adoptive parents and their journeys, given that they are the only adults with the ability to tell their stories at the time of adoption. ICAV is a platform for adult adoptees to tell their stories.

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Philipp Rösler, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (2011-2013, born in Vietnam in 1973)

1/5/2021

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Philipp Rosler was born in Vietnam in 1973 and adopted by a German family. Of all Vietnamese adoptees, he is the only one I know who has chosen to go into politics and rising to #2 in his home country is pretty amazing.

Article about his orphanage

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Mark F. Erickson (Đỗ Văn Hùng) is the author of the photobook Other Streets: Scenes from a Life in Vietnam not Lived.

Mark's photobook has been exhibited at the L.A. Center of Photography, the Davis Orton Gallery, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. He has been profiled in The Photobook Journal, diaCRITICS: the arts & culture of the Vietnamese and SE Asian diaspora website, the Worksleeve podcast, Chopsticks Alley, and Harvard Magazine.

Mark was born in Saigon in 1972, evacuated as part of Operation Babylift in April 1975, and adopted by an American family in western New York. At Harvard College, he studied documentary photography with Chris Killip (United Kingdom) and David Goldblatt (South Africa). He currently works in New York City.

Art Exhibition: Fragments, curated by Chopsticks Alley Art

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Philipp Rösler, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (2011-2013, born in Vietnam in 1973)

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