Roads of War ... (text + 100 photos)

Eugene Ananevich Khaldey - photographer, a military photojournalist. Born in Yuzovka (now Donetsk). The first picture was taken in thirteen homemade device. With eighteen years he began working photojournalist. Since 1939 - the correspondent of "Photochronicles TASS". I photographed the Dnieper, did stories about Stakhanov. Represented editorial Tass on naval front during the Great Patriotic War. He went to the Leica 1418 all days of the war from Murmansk to Berlin ...

... He took the Paris meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the defeat of the Japanese in the Far East, the conference of Heads of Allied Powers in Potsdam, the signing of the act of surrender of Germany. At the Nuremberg trials among the material evidence were pictures of Eugene Ananevich. He participated in the liberation of Sevastopol, the storming of Novorossiysk, Kerch, the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria and Hungary. During the struggle against cosmopolitanism in the USSR he was fired from the "Truth" after Stalin's death, to regain access to the newspaper pages. After the war created a unique gallery of soldiers engaged in peaceful work.

In 1995 in Perpignan (France) at the International Festival of Photojournalism Eugene Chaldea it was awarded the most honorable award in the world of art - the title of "Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature».

In 1997, the American publisher Aperture published a book, "Witness history. Photos Eugene Chaldea. " In May of the same year the premiere of the film shestidesyatiminutnogo "Eugene Chaldea - photographer Stalin era».

In 2004, the publishing house Editions Du Chene - Hachette Livre (France) was released book by Mark Grosse "Chaldean. Photojournalist of the Soviet Union »(Khaldei. Un Photoreporter en Union Sovietique).