Carol Kitman, a New York photographer whose chance encounter with twin immigrant brothers in Brooklyn led typo a decades-long project documenting their lives, tracking them through bar mitzvahs, weddings, military careers and, during the first Trump administration, the political scandal that made Alexander and Eugene Vindman household names, died on March 3 in the Bronx. She was 96.

“Her initial interest was about two cute little boys,” Alexander Vindman said. “But after those first photographs, she became part of our lives.”

Both Vindmans, lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Army, worked for the National Security Council during the first Trump administration. In 2020, they testified in separate hearings about President Trump’s pressure on Ukraine’s president to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of Joseph R. Biden Jr. The Trump administration removed both brothers from the National Security Council staff, and both retired from the military in 2020.

Mrs. Kitman’s pictures appeared frequently in newspapers, including The New York Times, and she exhibited her work in galleries and community colleges.

Times of Israel photo/Carol Kitman