Chebotayev's Print Auction Benefits Survivors

 

NEW YORK, NY (June 4, 2007) – World Picture Network editorial director Carlo Montali says WpN has established an online auction of 15 of slain photojournalist Dmitry Chebotayev's photographs to benefit his surviving family.

Chebotayev was killed on May 6 in Iraq along with six American Task Force Lightning soldiers. The photojournalist was riding with them when they were struck by a roadside bomb while on patrol northeast of Baghdad.

The photojournalist was on assignment for Russian Newsweek at the time of his death. He had covered conflict in Chechnya, Lebanon, the Golan Heights, and Iraq. Chebotayev spoke Russian and English and had freelanced for European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) and Newsweek in Russia after getting into photography by working for a corporate magazine

The bids for Chebotayev's photographs start at $250. Included in the selection are pictures he took in Iraq, Lebanon, and Chechnya. WpN is also accepting direct donations for Chebotayev's family through their Web site (top right, Home page).

There is an exhibit of the photographs of seven WpN photographers already in progress at Photographic Gallery on Front Street in New York, and one room has been set aside to show Chebotayev's photographs in his memory, Montali said.

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