The French built Hanoi’s Hoa Lo Prison in 1906 to confine Vietnamese political prisoners. Many years later, during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese imprisoned captured American fliers here, and the building became known in the US as the “Hanoi Hilton.” It is now a museum, and its dank confinement halls are lined with life sized mannequins, shackled to their beds. The French held their prisoners here for weeks or months before beating them to death or sending them to the guillotine. There is a palpable sense of ghostly spirits here in this prison. I was one of the few guests at the moment, left alone with these figures and my own imagination. I was able to express my feelings about this scene by gently panning the camera at one full second. I did not begin this pan until a fraction of a second after pressing the shutter release. As a result, we can see the figures themselves, huddled together, waiting to die. During the final part of the exposure the camera is moving, recording nothing but a ghostly blur. And that adds the spiritual connation here.