"Under Fire: Images from Vietnam" -- the first multimedia project of its kind -- offers affordable museum-quality
prints of exclusive images of the Vietnam War, the most photographed war of the 20th century. These photographs were made by many of the legendary young freelance and established
photographers who risked their lives to document this war. Some of the photographers featured on this site did not survive the conflict.
Dozens of photographs are presented in a unique Web
presentation, including background information on the photographers, interviews with or about them, and additional resources. Some of the photographs available for purchase were published in magazines, reproduced in books and exhibited in museums worldwide. They reveal the extraordinary talent, grace and courage of the photographers featured on this site.
"Under Fire: Images from Vietnam" was designed by PixelPress. PixelPress''s award-winning online magazine, www.pixelpress.org, features projects by artists and documentarians experimenting with new media. PixelPress also works with many organizations --such as Crimes of War, Human Rights Watch, World Health Organization and UNICEF-- and individual photographers --such as Machiel Botman, Kent Klich and Sebastião Salgado-- to create Web and book projects that deal directly with contemporary issues in complex ways.
"Under Fire" is the first of several multimedia projects to be presented on Piece Unique Gallery''s Web site.
Piece Unique Gallery is a division of Pieceunique.com, which was founded in 1997 by Catherine Leroy, an award-winning photojournalist who went to Vietnam at the age of 21. Leroy was the only accredited journalist to partake in a combat jump with the 173rd Airborne and she was wounded in combat with the Marines. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, she was briefly detained by the North Vietnamese Army in Hue and managed to bring back exclusive images from her experience on "the other side."