<P> Valley of the Shadow of Death is a photograph by Roger Fenton, taken on April 23, 1855, during the Crimean War . It is one of the most well - known images of war . </P> <P> Roger Fenton was sent to record the Crimean War by Thomas Agnew of Agnew & Sons, where England, France, and Turkey were fighting a war against Russia . The place of the picture was named by British soldiers The Valley of Death for being under constant shelling there . When in September 1855 Thomas Agnew put the picture on show, as one of a series of eleven collectively titled Panorama of the Plateau of Sebastopol in Eleven Parts in a London exhibition, he took the troops'--and Tennyson's--epithet, expanded it as Valley of the Shadow of Death with its deliberate evocation of twenty - third psalm of the Bible . </P>

In the valley of the shadow of doubt