Hubert van Es (6 Jul 1941 – 15 May 2009)
It has been a long time since my last blog update. I received emails from people wondering where I am. Well I am still alive. It has just been a very busy but positive time. From now on I will frequently update the blog, especially with news about upcoming sports events. But first a message about a fellow Dutchman who just passed away.
Hubert van Es was a Dutch photographer who passed away on 15 May 2009 in Hong Kong. He became famous after he made a picture on 29 April 1975 in Vietnam showing South Vietnamese civilians scrambling to board an Air America helicopter during the evacuation of the US in Saigon.
Due to copyright I don’t put the picture here but you can find it at: http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2009/may/17/77769/
The picture was taken a day before the fall of Saigon. For many years it was believed that the picture showed how people were evacuated from the roof US Embassy in Saigon which is however incorrect. The actually building was an apartment building located at Gia Long street (current address 22 Ly Tu Trong).
To read the full story about that day, written by van Es himself, you can visit: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0506/300mill.html
