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Arts > Photo > War photographers > Catherine Leroy 1945-2006
warning: graphic / distressing
Under her own initiative, Leroy documented the Fall of Saigon, capturing North Vietnamese troops entering the city 30 April 1975.
One-way ticket to Vietnam: Catherine Leroy’s fearless war photography – in pictures In 1966, 21-year-old French photojournalist Catherine Leroy ventured into the chaos of the Vietnam war, capturing the raw emotion and humanity of troops and civilians alike. Now, Leroy’s photos are being exhibited at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, on show now until 19 October. The Guardian Sat 23 Aug 2025 02.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/aug/23/
Soldiers from the First Cavalry captured Vietcong fighters hiding in a stream in Bong Son, Vietnam.
Dotation Catherine Leroy, via Contact Press Images
The Greatest War Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of One of the few female combat photographers in the war was also the most daring.
Vietnam '67 NYT March 28, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/28/
Soldiers from the First Cavalry captured Vietcong fighters hiding in a stream in Bong Son in 1967.
Photograph: Dotation Catherine Leroy, via Contact Press Images
Related: In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War NYT Sep. 27, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
Vietnam, September 1966.
US bombs pummel Binh Dinh province
Photograph: Dotation Catherine Leroy
Women on the frontline: female war photographers – in pictures There is a long history of female photographers working in war zones, with many playing a decisive role in shaping perceptions of armed conflict.
An exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany, features about 140 works by acclaimed photographers including Carolyn Cole, Susan Meiselas, Lee Miller and Gerda Taro taken over the past 80 years G Mon 25 Mar 2019 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/mar/25/
The 1st US Cavalry are seen during an operation in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam in January 1967.
One-way ticket to Vietnam: Catherine Leroy’s fearless war photography – in pictures In 1966, 21-year-old French photojournalist Catherine Leroy ventured into the chaos of the Vietnam war, capturing the raw emotion and humanity of troops and civilians alike. Now, Leroy’s photos are being exhibited at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, on show now until 19 October. The Guardian Sat 23 Aug 2025 02.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/aug/23/
Vietcong suspects are seen blindfolded before interrogation by US troops in the Mekong Delta region, September 1966.
After the Vietnam war, Leroy continued to take images in war zones for Time magazine, from the late 1970s to 1986.
One-way ticket to Vietnam: Catherine Leroy’s fearless war photography – in pictures In 1966, 21-year-old French photojournalist Catherine Leroy ventured into the chaos of the Vietnam war, capturing the raw emotion and humanity of troops and civilians alike. Now, Leroy’s photos are being exhibited at the 2025 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, on show now until 19 October. The Guardian Sat 23 Aug 2025 02.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/aug/23/
The evacuation of a mortally injured Marine in 1966.
Photograph: Dotation Catherine Leroy, via Contact Press Images
Related: In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War NYT Sep. 27, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
Navy corpsman Vernon Wike, with a dying comrade, near Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, in 1967.
Photograph: Dotation Catherine Leroy, via Contact Press Images
The Greatest War Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of One of the few female combat photographers in the war was also the most daring. Vietnam '67 NYT March 28, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/28/
Catherine Leroy France 1945-2006
photojournalist whose stark images of battle helped tell the story of Vietnam in Life magazine and other publications
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Ms. Leroy, who was born in France, was 21 in 1966 when she bought a one-way ticket to Saigon to document American troops in Vietnam.
A year later she was the only accredited journalist to take part in a combat parachute jump with the 173rd Airborne Brigade during Operation Junction City.
Her 1967 photograph “Corpsman in Anguish” portrays a young Marine, his face wrenched in torment, hunched over the body of his friend while smoke from the battle rises behind them.
In 1968, during the Tet offensive, Ms. Leroy was captured by the North Vietnamese Army.
She managed to talk her way out and emerged with images of the army in action that were published in Life.
One was used on the cover under the headline: “A Remarkable Day in Hue: The enemy lets me take his picture, by Catherine Leroy.”
Ms. Leroy worked for the Gamma and Sipa photo agencies and later sold her work to The Associated Press and United Press International.
Her photos appeared in publications worldwide.
She won a George Polk award for her Vietnam work in 1967 and was the first woman to receive the Robert Capa Award for her coverage of the civil war in Lebanon in 1976.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/aug/23/
https://www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2021/08/24/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2019/mar/25/
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/09/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/28/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/
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