Photo Exhibit runs January 19 – April 29. The Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism is open Monday – Friday during regular business hours. The Center is closed on weekends and holidays.

Catherine Leroy was 21 years old when she set out to Vietnam in 1966 with a one-way ticket to Saigon and a Leica camera. In less than two years, her intrepid reporting made her one of the most published photographers in the Vietnam war.

In 1967, Leroy was the only accredited journalist to partake in a combat jump with the 173rd Airborne during Operation Junction City. Two weeks after the battle for Hill 881, she was wounded with a Marine unit in the DMZ.

In 1968, Leroy was captured by the North Vietnamese Army during the Tet Offensive in Hue. She managed to talk her way out and came back to Saigon with a unique document of the North Vietnamese Army in action. Her story put her on the cover of Life magazine.

Leroy shot and directed “The Last Patrol” in 1972, a film about Ron Kovic and the anti-war Vietnam veterans. She later documented many areas of conflicts, including Somalia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Libya.

Leroy has won many awards including the George Polk award for Best Reporting Requiring Exceptional Courage and Enterprise Abroad, Picture of the Year, The Sigma Delta Chi and The Art Director’s Club of New York. She was the first woman to receive the Robert Capa Award for her coverage of the civil war in Lebanon in 1976. In 1997, she was the recipient of an Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University Of Missouri.

In 1982, she co-authored the book “GOD CRIED” with Tony Clifton, about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army.

Exhibits include:
– “The Indelible Image” -group show- The Corcoran Gallery Washington, 1986
– “Visa Pour L’Image”- Perpignan- France -1996- Retrospective.
– The Robert Capa Gold Medal Winners Exhibition in Japan 2000-2001

biography courtesy PieceuniqueGallery