Cynthia Elbaum

Who was Cynthia Elbaum?

Cynthia Elbaum was an American photojournalist, killed in Chechnya.

Cynthia Elbaum, who grew up in Ashfield, Massachusetts, graduated from Smith College with a major in Russian studies. She travelled frequently to the former Soviet Union, working as a freelance photojournalist.

On assignment for Time magazine during the start of the first war in Chechnya, Cynthia was photographing in the streets of Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic, when she was killed in a Russian bombing raid. She is the first journalist known to have been killed in that war.