Without Fear

Without Fear Published 08 March 2021 My chance find of an archive press photograph for sale on Ebay has introduced me to a group of women who shattered male domination of war reporting.  The photograph is of a young woman brushing her hair, dressed in military fatigues, with a camera round her neck.  The woman is anonymous but on the reverse is the caption, “Ma’am, what are you doing here?” The camera is a Minolta SRT101 with, unusually, a black shutter speed dial.  The black dial suggests that it was manufactured between 1966 and 1969, right in the middle of the Vietnam War (1955-1975).  A