The overriding theme or concern of Dmitri Baltermants' photgraphic work is to showcase the horrors of war. Baltermants was born in Warsaw, Poland, and later moved to Russia where he came an official photographer for the Kremlin. He worked for the daily newspaper Izvestia and was picture editor the magazine Ogonyok. Baltermants was active in the field during World War II, documenting the battle of Stalingrad and the Russian army in the Crimea, Ukraine, and Berlin. His images were censored by Russian authorities during the war, but after 1960, many of his photographs became widely known.

Source: DMAC News Jan Feb Mar Apri 2022