This image is taken from Michel Setboun’s third book about agencies. Eighty reporters were chosen to comment on one iconic image taken during their careers. The image we’re publishing today is a picture by Christopher Morris.
In December 1994, Russia invaded Chechnya and marched on Grozny. I was in Las Vegas at the time, about to get married. I had just enough time to put the ring on my wife’s finger on New Year’s Even before catching a flight the next day to Moscow and on to Grozny.
I must have taken this photo on January 6th, 1995. I was inside the presidential palace, completely surrounded by Russian troops positioned a hundred meters from the building. The only way in, and the only way out, was to use the main entrance, an immense square followed by a small corridor. The few vehicles that tried to pass were fired upon.
