The Strapateer Hall Of Fame

Our Strapateer recreation is a tribute to the great photographers and photojournalists who taught the world to see - and to those who paid with their lives to bring images home from the frontline of history.

Henri Huet - Associated Press Vietnam

photojournalist Kent Potter in Vietnam

Photojournalist Keizaburo Shimamoto

Photojournalist Larry Burrows

In 1971, the four photojournalists featured above; Larry Burrows, Kent Potter, Keisaburo Shimamoto and Henri Huet, climbed aboard a US Army helicopter and flew towards the Ho Chi MIn trail.

They would never return. Their helicopter was brought down by enemy fire. They had taken the greatest risks to bring back some of the most compelling images of the Vietnam war.

When their friend and fellow photographer, Horst Faas, searched years later for their remains, all that was found was Larry's Leica camera.

'To us younger men who had not yet earned reputations, he was a sainted figure. He was a truly beautiful man, modest, graceful, a star who never behaved like one. He was generous to all, a man who gave lessons to his colleagues not just on how to take photographs but, more important, on how to behave like a human being, how to be both colleague and mentor. Our experience of the star system in photography was, until we met him, not necessarily a happy one; all too often talent and ego seemed to come together in equal amounts. We were touched by Larry: How could someone so talented be so graceful?'

— David Halberstam, Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina