A Refugee’s Lens on Parisian Portraiture The life of Claude Lê-anh is a profound testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of displacement. Born in Hanoi in 1945, his early years were shaped by the tumultuous landscape of Vietnam, a period marked by upheaval that would eventually lead him far from his ancestral home. The fall of Saigon in 1975 served as a pivotal turning point, thrusting Lê-anh into the role of a refugee. This experience of migration and the subsequent resettlement in France did more than just change his geography; it provided him with a si…