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Biography
Cynthia Elbaum (March 19, 1966 – December 22, 1994) was an American photojournalist killed in Chechnya.

Cynthia Elbaum grew up in Ashfield, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before graduating from Smith College in 1989 with a major in Russian studies. While studying on scholarship in Moscow she taught English and then moved to New York where she taught English to Russian refugees. She began her career as a photojournalist in 1992 and travelled frequently to the former Soviet Union working as a freelance photojournalist.[1]

On assignment for Time magazine, she went to Chechnya on December 1, 1994. While photographing in the streets of Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic, she was killed on December 22 during a Russian bombing raid. She is the first journalist known to have been killed in that war.[2]

Photographs from seven surviving rolls of film from her time in Chechnya were exhibited at the Photocenter in Moscow by the Glastnost Defense Foundation from April 29 to May 5, 1997, to coincide with World Free Press Day. Cynthia Elbaum: A Life In Photographs, a film by Jude Elbaum and Kate OShea, Ph.D., won the grand prize at the 2012 Ashfield FilmFest. A CD to honor Cynthia Elbaum, For Cynthia, by her longtime friend Tony Jillson was released in 2014 to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.