L'Entente Cordiale (photograph)
[[File:Roger Fenton - L'Entente cordiale - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|350px|L'Entente Cordiale (1855) by Roger Fenton]]L'Entente Cordiale''''' is a black-and-white photograph by English photographer Roger Fenton, taken in 1855. The picture was part of the large number taken by Fenton during the Crimea War, where he was one of the first war photographers. History and description The Crimea War started in October 1853 between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, who was joined the following year by France and the United Kingdom. The British public opinion had a negative view of the war, so Queen Victoria invited Fenton to document the war with his photographic work, to give a more favourable view of the conflict. Fenton arrived in Balaklava, Crimea, and moved to Sevastopol, on March 1855, to document the ongoing siege. The English photographer attempted to portray the conflict in a positive way, and took pictures of members of the allied armies, both soldiers, officer and generals, of local landscapes and also of the set of the battlefields, often deserted. The scenes depicting soldiers are often staged, like the current one, which depicts the confraternization between British and French soldiers. They aren't easily distinguishable, because their uniforms are similar. Eight members of