
2025 The One-Way Ticket to Vietnam, 1966-1968: exhibition presented in Australia at the 11th edition of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (Bifb) from August 23 through October 19, 2025, includes 75 black and white and color photographs by Catherine Leroy from the three years she spent in Vietnam, along with facsimile of letters to her parents from the same period of time, original tear-sheets from magazines, portraits of her, and professional ephemera. Curated by Robert Pledge with Vanessa Gerrans, the Bifb CEO and Artistic Director and the Dotation Catherine Leroy’s Dominique Deschavanne, the exhibition is excerpted from the book under the same title launched in Australia on October 11 at the start of Bifb’s “Book Week.” A projection by the Alliance Française of Cathy At War, the film produced by the Dotation Catherine Leroy and directed by Jacques Menasche took place in Melbourne on October 10 under the auspices of the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in Australia.
2023 Vrouwen aan het front: (Women on the Frontline), the exhibition produced by the Düsseldorf Kunstpalast is presented at the Fotomuseum Den Haag from August 19 through November 26, 2023 following its touring in Switzerland at the Fotomuseum Winterthur and in Paris at the Musée de la Libération de Paris.
2022 Troubles I’ve Seen—Ireland, North and South, by women photographers (1970s-1990s): Gallery of Photography Ireland, in Dublin, presents a selection of colour photographs taken by Catherine Leroy in 1979 in Belfast during the Troubles. Drawn from the archives of the Dotation Catherine Leroy, this work had never been seen before. It is shown in a video projection curated by photography historian Pauline Vermare and includes the work of six other women photographers: Christine Spengler, Christine Halsall, Paula Allen, Donna DeCesare, Rosalind Fox Solomon, and Dana Tynan.
2022 Femmes Photographes de Guerre [Women War Photographers]: The exhibition iproduced in partnership with the Kunstpalast of Düsseldorf is shown in the French capital at the Musée de la Libération de Paris from March 8 to Decembre 31st, 2022, with a catalog.
2022 Catherine Leroy 1944-2006, un regard oublié (A Forgotten Gaze): France Culture, the iconic French public radio-station, aired in its weekly program “Toute une vie” (A Lifetime) of January 15, 2022 an exceptional one-hour long documentary produced by Hannah Barron and directed by Yvon Croisier, it includes extensive interviews with Elizabeth Becker, Christine Spengler and Robert Pledge along with never before released excerpts of Leroy’s voice (and laughs!) recorded by radio correspondent Roland Mehl in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
2021 Les guerres de Catherine Leroy (Catherine Leroy’s Wars): Le Monde publishes on August 26 a full double-spread on the life and work of Catherine Leroy as part of its “Forgotten Women“—series dedicated to five exceptional individuals whose accomplishments and legacy went unnoticed in the newspaper at the time of their death. The article is authored by Raphaëlle Rérolle, one of the newspaper’s prominent roving foreign correspondents and literary editor.
2021 Catherine Leroy: Woman at War: Fotodemic presented on April 30 a virtual Town Hall panel as a tribute to the famed photographer who died in July 2016. The day marked the 46th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War that Leroy covered for three years as the sole woman combat photojournalist (1966/1968). The speakers on the panel moderated by Fred Ritchin, the Catherine Leroy Fund president (DCL) included: Elizabeth Becker, the author of You Don’t Belong Here, acclaimed photographers Lynsey Addario and Christine Spengler, Cathy At War director Jacques Menasche, and Mary Cronk Farrell, the author of the up-coming Close Up On War.
2020 Fotografinnen an Der Front the Düsseldorf eight-Women conflict photographers exhibition is presented at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland, first from February 29 to March 28, then following an interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, from May 12 to August 30, 2020
2019 Fotografinnen an Der Front – (Women on the Frontline). Eight remarkable women war photographers are represented in this 140 piece touring exhibition initiated by the Kunstpalast of Düsseldorf, Germany (March 8 through June 10); catalog
2019 Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection: collective exhibition drawn from the International Center of Photography’s treasures, ICP Museum, New York City, USA (February 8 through June 16)
2014 Memory of War – Women in War: Eleven female conflict photographers, Daegu Biennale, Daegu, South Korea; catalog
2012 War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath: collective show, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Texas, USA; catalog (MFAH & Yale University Press)
2008 Catherine Leroy, photoreporter de guerre: short retrospective presented in her native region at Enghien-les-Bains’ media-library, France
2007 Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context — Woman, War and Photography: A Tribute to Catherine Leroy: A panel discussion presented by Aperture Foundation in partnership with Parsons—The New School for Design and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, with photographers Lynsey Addario, Samantha Appleton, David Burnett, Carolyn Cole and Carol Guzy, introduced by Fred Ritchin, moderated by Robert Pledge. Click here for more details.
2005 Under Fire – Vietnam War Photographs by Catherine Leroy: The Center for Photography, University of California–Berkeley, USA; filmed conversation with Catherine Leroy and Don McCullin.
2000 Inhumanity and Humanity – The Robert Capa Gold Medal Winners: group show, Fuji Art Museum: Tokyo, Japan; catalog (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum)
1996 Catherine Leroy retrospective in Perpignan, France: the sole such exhibition in her country of birth in her lifetime was organized at the initiative of her namesake Jean-François Leroy, the director of the annual photojournalism festival Visa pour l’Image.
1986 The Indelible Image: Photographs of War – 1846 to the Present: collective show: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; catalog (Harry N.Abrams)


