Storm Troops by Edward Oppenheimer

'Storm Troops'

Spot News, second prize stories

1993

The power struggle between the legislature, led by Ruslan Khasbulatov and Aleksandr Rutskoi, and President Yeltsin came to a head when Yeltsin dissolved parliament on September 21. As the world looked on, the rebels barricaded themselves in the White House parliament building, where they installed Rutskoi as their new president. Barricades were erected on Moscow's main street. When soldiers and tanks appeared on the scene, they became targets for sniper fire from the White House. In the afternoon of October 4 the rebels, some of them injured, began evacuating the building. Storm troops reclaiming the White House for Yeltsin found more than 40 bodies.

Commissioned by: Primus Photo Agency

Photo Credit: Edward Oppenheimer

Edward Oppenheimer (born June 4, 1957, Wichita Falls, Texas) is an award-winning photojournalist based in Moscow, Russia.He currently works as Director of Photography for the Russian media group Kommersant in Moscow. Edward Oppenheimer grew up in Klamath Falls, a small town in southern Oregon. In 1980 he graduated from Lewis and Clark College with honors in Economics and a second degree in French. . During the 1990s he also worked freelance for several leading western publications and photo agencies, such as Time magazine, The New York Times, Washington Post, Fortune, Stern, Sunday Times, The Independent, Black Star, and Sipa Press.

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