In 1963 his first major 14 page photo essay on the war in Vietnam was published after working on it for 6 months. One of the major reasons his work was so coveted was because unlike standard reportage from Vietnam, Burrows' images were in color, which jarred and shocked the public. His photos also showed the truth of the Vietnam War which some photojournalists weren't getting; this included his photo of an ARVN soldier threatening a suspect Viet Cong with a bayonet (Appendix 1). (UTATA, 2014).
In October 1966, Burrows captured a photograph that for generations has served as the most indelible, searing illustration of the horrors in the Vietnam War (Appendix 2). This photo known as 'Reaching Out' is from a mud-splattered hill just south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Vietnam and shows an injured Marine, Gunnery Sgt Jeremiah Purdie reaching out to a stricken comrade. In this one shot, the world witnessed tenderness and terror, desolation and fellowship and the power of human compassion, even during a bloody and ugly time. (Time Inc, 2014). The photos Burrows produced were not only striking because they showed with clarity the scary, widening conflict but for how graphic they are. So to Americans, who were long accustomed to having their news censored, these photos opened their eyes to what the Vietnam War was really like and what their soldiers were going through. (Time Inc, 2014).
Australian, Denis Gibbons was another popular photojournalist because he had the uncanny ability to capture photos from the "soldier's-eye view". When he was out with a platoon of soldiers in patrol, he would stand fifth from the front, just behind the machine gunner. On his hip was a revolver; on his back, a typewriter and in his hand, a camera to capture the crude, startling truth of life on the front line (Hasham, 2011). He undertook army training in Sydney before he arrived in Vietnam in January 1966 at only 27 years of age.
