Turkish infantry soldiers 1854

Photograph of five Turkish infantry soldiers. Two are standing and three are seated. They are wearing military uniform and tassled caps and four are holding bayonets. To the left there is a pile of wood and other debris. Szathmari was one of the first war photographers, and the first to photograph the Crimean War. In the spring of 1854 he travelled to the area around the Danube and photographed the Turkish and Russian soldiers engaged in the first skirmishes of the war. He exhibited the resulting photographs at the Paris World Exposition of 1855 and presented copies to Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoleon III.