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Tributes / Exhibitions

Catherine Leroy was involved but once in her lifetime in a retrospective presentation of her work. Initiated by Jean-François Leroy, the unrelated director of Perpignan’s yearly festival of photojournalism ‘Visa pour l’image’, the 1996 exhibition rightfully took place in France, her country of birth. In 2005, a little over a year before Leroy died, Ken Light, director of the Department of Photography of the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California–Berkley, presented an exhibition of her Vietnam War images and organized a symposium prompted by her experience as a war photographer. In 2014, South Korea’s Daegu Biennale paid a special tribute to Leroy on the occasion of the group show ‘Memory of War – Women War Photographers.’

 

1986 The Indelible Image: Photographs of War – 1846 to the Presentcollective show: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; catalog (Harry N.Abrams)

1996 Catherine Leroy, a retrospective: ‘Visa pour l’image’ Festival, Perpignan, France

2000 Inhumanity and Humanity – The Robert Capa Gold Medal Winners: group show, Fuji Art Museum: Tokyo, Japan; catalog (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum)

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

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.

2008 Catherine Leroy, photoreporter de guerre: short retrospective presented in her native region at Enghien-les-Bains’ media-library, France

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)

2014 Memory of WarWomen in War: Eleven female conflict photographers, Daegu Biennale, Daegu, South Korea; 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)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Troubles I’ve SeenIreland, 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.

Cover of the exhibition catalogue (photograph by Henri Bureau), Harry N. Abrams, 1985
'The Indelible Image, Photographs of War' - 1846 to the Present, Exhibition catalogue, Harry N. Abrams, 1985
'The Indelible Image, Photographs of War' - 1846 to the Present, Exhibition catalogue, Harry N. Abrams, 1985
Catherine Leroy at Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, France, 1996
'Inhumanity and Humanity‚ The Robert Capa Gold Medal Winners', Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, exhibition catalogue cover, 2000
'Inhumanity and Humanity‚ The Robert Capa Gold Medal Winners', Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, exhibition catalogue, 2000
'Inhumanity and Humanity‚ The Robert Capa Gold Medal Winners', Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, exhibition catalogue, 2000
Exhibition poster, University of California-Berkeley, 2005
'Catherine Leroy, photoreporter de guerre', Enghien, France, 2008
Cover of the exhibition book/catalogue, MFAH, Houston, Texas, 2012
'War/Photography, Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath' , exhibition book/catalogue, MFAH, Houston, Texas, 2012
'Memory of War - Women in War', Daegu Biennial Photo Festival, South Korea, 2014
'Memory of War - Women in War', Daegu Biennial Photo Festival, South Korea, 2014
'Memory of War - Women in War', Daegu Biennial Photo Festival, exhibition catalogue, South Korea, 2014
'Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection', International Center of Photography Museum, New York City, 2019
'Fotografinnen an der Front', Kunstpalast Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2019
'Fotografinnen an Der Front', Photomuseum, in Winterthur, Switzerland, 2020
Le Monde, August 26, 2021
Troubles I’ve Seen Ireland, North and South, by women photographers (1970s —1990s): Gallery of Photography Ireland, in Dublin
‘Femmes photographes de guerre’ Musée de la Libération de Paris, 2022
‘Femmes photographes de guerre’ Musée de la Libération de Paris, 2022
‘Femmes photographes de guerre’ Outdoor display at Gare de Lyon, Paris, 2022
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