Laos, the lost Hmong

A series of watercolours I produced in 2003 after being released from jail in Laos where I was arrested for a clandestine reportage on a ethnic Hmong community hiding in the jungle from Laos authorities. This community was the last remnants of Hmong who were used by the American CIA during the so-called "secret war" in the 1960s and 1970s to fight the communist insurgency. As my pictures were confiscated never to be seen again, I recreated from memory some of the scenes I had witnessed during that reportage. They were published in media such as The New York Times, Grands Reportages, Le Soir, etc