Crimean War - Roger Fenton

A pioneering British photographer, Roger Fenton is known as one of the first war photographers. His Crimean War photo series is the first historic attempt to portray war campaign with the help of photo camera. Fenton spend March-June 1855 in Crimea as an official campaign photographer, paid by the British government, recording participants and landscapes for posterity. These records never managed to capture battles, explosions, devastations, wounds, blood and tears, partly due to the limitations of photographic techniques of the period, but also because of official wish to glamorize the war and shift public attention away from government and military mismanagement, for which Crimean campaign became infamously known.