Gilles Caron (8 July-5 April 1970) was a French photographer and photojournalist. He covered most of the high-profile conflicts in the world until he went in 1970 to Cambodia after king Norodom Sihanouk was deposed by Lon Nol on March 1970. On April 5, Gilles Caron disappeared on Route 1, a road between Cambodia and Vietnam Controlled by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. He was also the cofounder of photographic agency Gamma. Although he was primarily known as a war reporter, he captured also the quintessential
spirit of the 1960s.
