Khaldei continued to photograph, now working as a freelance photographer for Soviet newspapers, and focused on capturing the scenes of everyday life. In 1959, he got a job again at the newspaper "Pravda", where he worked until he was forced to retire in 1970. Khaldei's wartime photographs were collected in a 93-page book, "Ot Murmanska do Berlina" ("From Murmansk to Berlin"), published in 1984. His work continues to be distributed through the Sovfoto agency which has operated in the West since 1932. Khaldei's international fame dates from the 1990s, when exhibitions of his photographs began to be held in the West.