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  • Cathy At War, the full-length documentary film by Jacques Menasche, produced by the Dotation Catherine Leroy, will be presented for the first time in France, on November 8, 2022 at the Musée de la Libération de Paris as part of a series of lectures and panel discussions related to its current “Women War Photographers” exhibition (March 8 through December 31). The film director will be present and will answer questions from the by-invitation-only audience.
  • Elizabeth Becker‘s You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War has won the 2022 Sperber Book Prize, awarded annually by New York’s Fordham University. The prize will be conferred on November 7, 2022, at a ceremony at their Lincoln Center campus. “Our jurors had effusive praise for the research and writing of You Don’t Belong Here,” the director of the Sperber Prize, Beth Knobel, Fordham Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, explained. “The book sheds light on the work of three brilliant journalists, two of whom are little known in the United States. Becker not only did a wonderful job of bringing their stories to life, but she also contextualized Fitzgerald, Webb and Leroy’s accomplishments in the larger history of the Vietnam conflict. The book makes a huge contribution to both journalism studies and history.”
  • Associate professor in Visual Culture and Graphic and Fashion Design History at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut, Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan is one of three recipients of the 2021 inaugural Research Grants on Photobook History awarded by the non-profit organization 10×10 Photobooks for “research and scholarship that seek to provide missing information in the history of women and photobooks from 1843 to 1999.” Her June 16, 2022 online presentation of Catherine Leroy’s work in Lebanon focused on God Cried, the controversial opus that the French conflict photographer co-authored with Australian writer Tony Clifton. Published in 1983 by Quartet Books Ltd. in London, the book recounts the 1982 siege of Beirut by the Israeli Army and describes the pain and suffering caused by the fighting from the perspective of Palestinian refugees.
  • Barely a year after graduating from America’s Virginia Military Institute, Phil Gioia landed in Vietnam, in early 1968, in the first weeks of the Têt offensive, to lead a platoon of the US 82nd Airborne Division. He vividly remembers holding the latest copy of Life that had just been delivered by helicopter with his company’s mail, and the shock of seeing pictures of the men he was fighting against in Hué, as he was leafing through the issue of the weekly magazine that featured Catherine Leroy’s cover-story on North Vietnamese forces shot only a week or so prior in that same city. Gioia tells the story in his Vietnam Memoir Danger Close! (page 220) released on June 15, 2022 by Stackpole Books.
  • The C-Span rebroadcast over the 2022 Memorial Day Weekend of the interview of Elizabeth Becker about her highly-acclaimed book You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War (Public Affairs) inspired the channel to prepare a lesson plan around Catherine Leroy, Frances Fitzgerald, and Kate Webb: reflective questions ask students to consider their prior knowledge of the Vietnam War and the role of journalists during wartime. Students then watch, analyze, and respond to an introductory video that provides an overview of Becker’s book.
  • Author Mary Cronk Farrell, who’s recently released book for young adults Close-up on War: The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam (Amulet Books at Abrams) chronicles Catherine Leroy’s time covering the Vietnam War and her evolution from an ambitious newbie to a highly-acclaimed conflict photographer, is a guest of The B&H Photography Podcast.
  • The 2022 Goldsmith Book Prize (Trade) was awarded to: You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War and was presented to Elizabeth Becker on April 5th at the Harvard Kennedy School’s during the Shorenstein Center’s annual ceremony. Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, and Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade.
  • Gallery of Photography Ireland, in Dublin, presents a selection of colour photographs taken by Catherine Leroy in 1979 in Belfast during the Troubles within the group exhibition PROTEST! Photography, Activism and Social Change in Ireland (April 21 – June 11, 2022). Drawn from the archives of the Dotation Catherine Leroy, this work had never been seen before. It is shown as part of Troubles I’ve Seen—Ireland, North and South, by women photographers (1970s-1990s), a video projection curated by photo historian Pauline Vermare that includes the work of six other women photographers: Christine Spengler, Christine Halsall, Paula Allen, Donna DeCesare, Rosalind Fox Solomon, and Dana Tynan.
  • ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) producer and journalist Fiona Pepper posted on March 31, 2022 on the National Radio website a long article devoted to Elizabeth Becker’s You Don’t Belong Here, focused on the pioneering role of the three women depicted in the book: Catherine Leroy, Kate Webb and Frances FitzGerald are definitely perceived as exceptional role models by their colleagues working today in Ukraine.
  • From award-winning American children and young adult book author Mary Cronk Farrell comes the inspiring and fascinating story of the woman who gave a human face to the Vietnam War: Close Up On War—The Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam (Amulet Books at Abrams) tells the story of one of the war’s few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the 20-year conflict. French-born Leroy left home at age 21 to travel to Vietnam and document the realities of war. Despite being told that women didn’t belong in a “man’s world,” she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers’ slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and produced striking photographs that gave America no choice but to take notice and look at the horrors of war—showing what it did to people on both sides—from wounded soldiers to endless civilian casualties. When captured by the North Vietnamese in 1968, she talked herself free after photographing her captors, scoring a cover story in Life magazine. A recipient of the George Polk Award and the Robert Capa Gold Medal, two of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, Leroy was one of the most internationally-renown photographers of her time. Her legacy of bravery and compassion endures today.
  • On the occasion of the release in the United States of Mary Cronk Farrell’s Close Up On War (Amulet Books, Abrams), the bilingual, French and English online magazine Blind published in its March 21, 2022 edition an extensive illustrated piece devoted to Catherine Leroy and “The Making of a Photojournalist during the Vietnam War” by independent American journalist and photographer Robert E. Gerhardt.
  • Renown war photographer Patrick Chauvel, recently back from several weeks covering the conflict in Ukraine, responds in the March 19, 2022 edition of the French daily Libération to a question about the women war photographers’ exhibition that opened at the Musée de la Libération de Paris: “It’s only fair. We do need more of them. I really liked Catherine Leroy, despite her famously bad temper […] They are fearless and know how to address sadness and questions that too often their male counterparts cannot handle.” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) devotes its latest photography album to Chauvel who looks back at a half-century-long commitment to photojournalism.
  • Organized in partnership with the Kunstpalast of Düsseldorf in Germany, the Femmes Photographes de Guerre (Women War Photographers) exhibition opened on March 8, 2022 at the Musée de la Liberation de Paris where it will be hosted through December 31st, 2022.  (4, Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, 75014 Paris, France). Eight well-known women photographers who covered 75 years of international conflicts from 1936 to 2011: Lee Miller (1907-1977), Gerda Taro (1910-1937), Catherine Leroy (1944-2006), Christine Spengler (b. 1945), Françoise Demulder (1947-2008), Susan Meiselas (b. 1948), Carolyn Cole (b. 1961) and Anja Niedringhaus (1965-2014). The over eighty photographs and a dozen original newspapers and magazines shown in the exhibition shine a light on women’s involvement in conflicts as combatants, victims, or witnesses.
  • Produced online for the second year in a row in reason of the ongoing pandemic, this year’s annual FOTOfusion festival in West Palm Beach, Florida, featured on March 1st a lecture on “Catherine Leroy’s War and Peace.” Robert Pledge presented her powerful images taken during the American war in Vietnam, from the height of the military confrontation in the Sixties to the end of the war with the Fall of Saigon in April 1975, to a country reunified, and at peace, in 1980.
  • France Culture, the prestigious French public radio-station, aired in its weekly program “Toute une vie (A Lifetime)” on January 15, 2022 the remarkable one-hour long documentary “Catherine Leroy 1944-2006, un regard oublié (A Forgotten Gaze)”. 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 recorded by radio correspondent Roland Mehl in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
  • Published by the German magazine GEO, the 2021 once-a-year special issue Perspektive devoted to long-term photographic projects, features a portrait in words of Catherine Leroy over a double-spread illustrated with one of her pictures from the Vietnam War.
  • Le Monde publishes on August 26, 2021 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. “Les guerres de Catherine Leroy (Catherine Leroy’s Wars)“ is authored by Raphaëlle Rérolle, one of the newspaper’s prominent roving foreign correspondents and literary editor.
  • Fotodemic presents live, on April 30, 2021, a virtual Town Hall panel moderated by Fred Ritchin, the Catherine Leroy Fund president (DCL), as a tribute to the famed photographer who died fifteen years ago this coming July. That day marks the 46th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War that Leroy covered for three years as the only woman combat photojournalist (1966/1968). The speakers on the “Catherine Leroy: Woman at War” panel include: Elizabeth Becker, the author of You Don’t Belong Here, acclaimed photographers Lynsey Addario and Christine Spengler, film-maker Jacques Menasche, and writer Mary Cronk Farrell.
  • CNN: CNN aired on April 14, 2021, an ten-minute interview of You Don’t Belong Here author Elizabeth Becker by Christiane Amanpour
  • France2 highlighted Catherine Leroy on April 4, 2021 in their weekly program devoted to inspiring women achievers. The segment was produced for the French television channel by Dorothée Olliéric and included short interviews with iconic photographers Patrick Chauvel and Raymond Depardon.
  • C-Span: You Don’t Belong Here author, Elizabeth Becker appears in an hour-long conversation with Susan Swain on her weekly ‘Q&A’ program of March 28, 2021.
  • The New York Times in its edition dated March 20, 2021 published an Op-Ed by Elizabeth Becker, author of You Don’t Belong here under the heading: “I don’t want my role models erased. This is how women who covered Vietnam were marginalized in the warʼs history. “
  • You Don’t Belong Here, How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, is published on February 23, 2021 (Public Affairs/Hachette Book Group). Through the story and work of French photographer Catherine Leroy, US journalist Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940) and New Zeland/Australian war correspondent Kate Webb (1943-2007), Becker shows the way three women from very different background and culture covered the Vietnam War getting around or breaking down the barriers raised against them in a man-dominated world.
    Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning journalist and author of several books. War correspondent for the Washington Post in the 1960s and 1970s, she has reported on international and national affairs as a correspondent at the New York Times and was the senior foreign editor of National Public Radio (NPR). She is part of the team of The New York Times awarded with a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Nine Eleven. She is the author of the now classic When the War was Over, Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge (1986) regularly republished over the past twenty years.
  • Two major books devoted to the role of women in the history of photography are released in France in the fall of 2020 and include Catherine Leroy: Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes by Textuel, and, Femmes photographes, l’envers de l’objectif by Actes Sud in the Photo Poche series (no. 161) along with its English edition by Thames & Hudson in the Photofiles series under the title Women Photographers, Revolutionaries, 1937-1970.
  • Fotografinnen an Der Front the Düsseldorf eight-Women conflict photographers exhibition is presented at the Fotomuseum 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.
  • Fotografinnen an Der Front, (Women on the Frontline) is the title of a travel group show initiated by the Kunstpalast (Museum of Art) of Düsseldorf, Germany, this spring (March 8 through June 10, 2019) that showcases the work of strong and talented women in war photography. Contrary to the widespread notion that the field is a male-owned profession, there is a long history of female photographers working in war zones. They have documented worldwide crises and contributed to shaping our image of conflict. They often had less restricted access to the families and victims than their male counterparts.
    The exhibition comprises 140 works by eight photographers from as many past decades: Carolyn Cole (born 1961), Françoise Demulder (1947-2008), Catherine Leroy (1944-2006), Susan Meiselas (born 1948), Lee Miller (1907-1977), Anja Niedringhaus (1965-2014), Christine Spengler (born1945) and Gerda Taro (1910 -1937). The photographs range from the European conflicts of the 1930s and 1940s to the most recent international confrontations, and express different pictorial strategies and narrative forms, from intimate insight into the everyday life of war to firsthand testimony of shattering atrocities, all hinting at the absurdity of war and its terrible consequences.
    Curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann and Felicity Korn and produced with the support of the Kulturstiftung Des Bundes and the Rudolf Augstein Stiftung foundations.
  • Chinese Photographers, a well-established monthly magazine published in China, devoted its April 2018 cover story to Catherine Leroy and her coverage of the Vietnam War on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Têt Offensive. Title of the 26-page portfolio: “Love and Compassion Over the Tragic Vietnam War”. Rarely, if ever, have that many intensely dramatic war images been so powerfully displayed in print in China, and much less produced by such a woman ‘combat photographer.’
  • The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, NY, invited Robert Pledge to give a lecture on April 23, 2018 to their documentary photography students on the topic of “History and Photography: It’s Always Personal” which prominently featured Catherine Leroy’s black-and-white coverage of the Vietnam War. The next day, Pledge made a presentation to the students of the Military Class and focused on the 1968 Battle of Hué as witnessed by two iconic photographers: Don McCullin with his work in black-and-white, and Leroy with her more rarely seen work in color.
  • The ‘Outlook’ section of The Washington Post‘s February 25, 2018 Sunday edition published a two-full page spread with photographs and text by famed British conflict photographer Don McCullin. “The Battle That Still Haunts Me” is a personal reflection on the fierce Battle of Hué that took place 50 years ago and describes the horrific eleven days the photographer spent with the US Marines in the recapture of Vietnam’s former imperial capital, an experience similar to that of Catherine Leroy, “the courageous French photographer” as defined by McCullin himself, who was present too. They never met during their coverage of the event. Coïncidentally, they left the scene on the same helicopter.
  • FOTOfusion, the annual West Palm Beach photography festival, presented on January 27, 2018 “In color and black-&-white, 50 years ago: The Battle of Hué”. The community lecture by Robert Pledge, President of The Dotation Catherine Leroy, intertwined the coverage of the fiercest battle of the Vietnam War by two iconic conflict photographers, a man and a woman: the British Don McCullin, and the French, Catherine Leroy.
  • The New York Times’ published an opinion column under the title “The Women Who Covered Vietnam” by former correspondent for the paper and author of “America’s Vietnam War: A Narrative History,” Elizabeth Becker, who naturally makes reference to Catherine Leroy.
  • In 1969, Âmes Vaillantes a conservative catholic girl scout publication published in France presented under the title “Catherine a choisi l’impossible” [Catherine chases the impossible] an 8-page comic strip based on a loose depiction of Catherine Leroy’s three years spent in Vietnam, from 1966 through 1968. A rare copy was donated to the Fund by French researcher and collector Frédérick Sully.
  • Time magazine’s Lightbox site, under the title “Who is the enemy here?” asked 18 photographers and editors to speak about one image from the Vietnam War that particularly moved them. Fred Ritchin chose one of Catherine Leroy’s rarely seen photographs.
  • The New York Times’ Lens blog dated September 27, 2017 reproduced 17 Vietnam war pictures by or related to Catherine Leroy to announce the launch of this site. The photographs are accompanied with an article by Elizabeth Herman that examines the photographer’s close relationship with her parents as expressed through the over 100 letters she sent to them during the three years she spent in Vietnam covering the conflict (1966/1968)
  • The French cultural weekly magazine Télérama chose one of Catherine Leroy’s Hill 881 images to preview the soon to be released “The Vietnam War” documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on the Arte television channel. The image of Corpsman Vernon Wike appears in Episode 5 of the European version.
  • Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): ‘The Viertnam War’ is a ten-part 18 hour documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that starts airing in the USA on September 17, 2017 and includes images by Catherine Leroy.
    The highly-acclaimed Franco-German cultural network Arte is to present the full documentary in three segments between September 19 and 21, 2017.
  • “One Woman A Week” Fernanda Sanovicz, a Brazilian illustrator based in New York City, chose Catherine Leroy as her May 6, 2017 subject.
The Washington Post, February 25, 2018
Âmes vaillantes, 1969       
Télérama, September 16/22, 2017
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