Catherine Leroy and the Making of a Photojournalist during the Vietnam War — Blind Magazine While the stories of what photojournalist Catherine Leroy accomplished in her years photographing the Vietnam War are legendary in certain circles, a new biography for young adults aims to bring Leroy’s story to a new generation. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/catherine-leroy-and-the-making-of-a-photojournalist-during-the-vietnam-war/…
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. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/in-her-own-words-photographing-the-vietnam-war/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Catherine Leroy was 21 when she arrived in Vietnam in 1966 with only a hundred…
DigitalJournalist: I had never met Catherine Leroy before doing the interviews for my book Shooting Under Fire in 2002. I had heard the legends, of course; how she arrived in Vietnam in 1966 with one Leica, no experience and even less money; how she parachuted with the 173rd Airborne in a combat operation; how she…
From PDN: Leroy was part of a generation of photojournalists who made their names in Vietnam – some others include David Burnett, Don McCullin, Gilles Caron, Larry Burrows, Tim Page and Dirck Halstead – by taking advantage of the access afforded to journalists there. “We rode in military planes, did helicopter assaults during operations, walked…
