Haldey photographer biography

English Haldey Evgeny Ananievich - Evgeny Haldeus was born in the small Ukrainian city of Yuzovka - then he was called Stalin, and now - Donetsk. The Black Hundreds who burst into the house killed his mother, who, dying, covered her son. The bullet passed through her body and stuck in the lungs of Little Eugene. Then there was a school, from the age of 13 - a plant. From the age of 18, Haldeus began working as a photojournalist, was published in Ukrainian newspapers.

Some of his pictures appeared in Moscow publications. I shot a lot and printed a lot: the Stakhanovites with jackpot hammers, Magnitogorsk, Dneprovostroy, members of the Politburo surrounded by young communists - shot everything that was supposed to real Soviet photographer.

Fame came to him as a military photojournalist. The military pictures of Chaldea were included in many books and encyclopedias about the war, starting from the frame, capturing Muscovites listening on the Radio Government message on June 22 and ending with the famous picture “The Banner of Victory over the Reichstag”. And between these two photographs, almost four years of the war, for which he and his "watering can" have come a long way from Murmansk to Berlin.

He shot Chaldeans both at the Victory Parade on Red Square, and at the Potsdam Conference, and in the days of the Nuremberg process. After the war, Yevgeny Khaldey once again in his own skin felt the notorious “Jewish question”. Eugene tried to fight and wrote a letter to the Central Committee in the year. On the request of Suslov to the relevant authorities: “Where can Evgeny Chaldea use?

But he continued to take pictures. From the year he worked at Pravda, he was fired in the year - again on the Fifth Point. The year of the personal triumph of Yevgeny Khaldeus was the year of the fiftieth anniversary of Victory. This year, the seventh international festival of photojournalists took place in France. The culmination of the festival was the celebration of two famous photographers from the Second World War: Evgenia Haldeus and American Joe Rosental by the author of the famous photograph, in which the marine infantrymen raise the American flag over the Pacific island of Ivo Dzima.

The two are far from young people, supporting each other, stood in front of a crowded hall, which stood applauding them for fifteen minutes. At the same festival, Chaldea was awarded one of the most honorable awards in the world of art - "Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature."