In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War – The New York Times

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In Her Own Words, Photographing the Vietnam War

While covering the Vietnam War, Catherine Leroy wrote over 100 letters home, detailing her professional and personal experiences as the only female photojournalist in Vietnam at the time.

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Catherine Leroy was 21 when she arrived in Vietnam in 1966 with only a hundred dollars, a Leica M2 and a limited professional portfolio. Over the next three years covering the war, she built an exceptional body of work: surviving and documenting a capture by the North Vietnamese Army, parachuting in combat operations with the 173rd Airborne, and being published on the covers of major magazines, including Life and Paris Match.

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