Cynthia Elbaum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cynthia Elbaum

American photojournalist

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1966

Place of Birth: Ashfield, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1994

Profession: photographer, photojournalist, journalist, war photographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Cynthia Elbaum (March 19, 1966 – December 22, 1994) 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 traveled 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.