Cynthia Elbaum
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Cynthia Elbaum (born 1966 – died December 22, 1994) was an American photojournalist, killed in Chechnya.
Cynthia Elbaum 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 the first known journalist to be killed in that war.
