Phạm Thanh Tâm (1932-2019) was a prominent war correspondent and artist. Born in Haiphong, at the age of fifteen he joined the League for the Independence of Vietnam or Viet Minh. During the First Indochina War (1946-1954), he was a war reporter and artist at the historic battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French colonial rule in Indochina. After the war, he joined Nhân Dân (The People), the communist party newspaper, and continued his art studies at the Hanoi Institute of Fine Arts, graduating in 1962. He was a war correspondent and artist during the Vietnam War (1964-1975) and the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979). He retired from the People's Army with the rank of colonel. His drawings are in several museum collections including the British Museum and the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum.