The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy

Boris Yaro was an American photojournalist whose black-and-white documentary work captured pivotal moments of civil unrest and urban life in postwar America. His photographs of the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the Los Angeles uprising became iconic records of national trauma. Working primarily for the Los Angeles Times, Yaro developed a distinctive approach to news photography that balanced immediacy with compositional rigor, creating images that functioned simultaneously as journalism and as formal visual testimony.