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Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications.
Her life. A daring pioneer. At a time when women’s liberation movements were still emerging, Catherine Leroy, a small woman — barely 40kgs/85lbs. at 1.50m/4’10” — born into a conservative Catholic bourgeois milieu, broke through many professional barriers.
DCL – Catherine Leroy Photographer. The Catherine Leroy Fund. HER LIFE. BIOGRAPHY. INTERVIEWS. WITH CATHERINE LEROY. ABOUT CATHERINE LEROY. IN HER OWN WORDS. LETTERS FROM VIETNAM.
28 mar 2017 · In fact, for most of the 1960s, there were only two: Dickie Chapelle, who was killed by a grenade in 1965, and Catherine Leroy. Leroy was widely considered the most daring photographer in...
- Elizabeth Herman
Following the death of American photographer Dickey Chapelle killed during a patrol in November 1965, Catherine Leroy was the only woman photographer to cover the conflict in Vietnam as a war correspondent between 1966 and 1968.
Biography. 1944 Born in Sannois in the suburbs of Paris on August 27 in a night of heavy bombing by the Allied Forces during World War II. 1966 Arrives in Vietnam without any professional experience on a one-way ticket, with a Leica M2 and a hundred dollars in her pocket.
27 set 2017 · 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.
