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After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace

After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace
Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the conflict in Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, reflects on the brutal realities of war.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/03/after-witnessing-war-in-ukraine-a-photojournalist-fights-for-peace/
“Humankind repeats the same mistakes over and over again,” Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the war in Ukraine from when it began in 2014 until 2019, tells me. “People never learn, so I did not go on assignment ‘to stop war’ or teach someone a lesson. My agenda was far more realistic if not primitive.

March 28, 2023
After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace

After Witnessing War in Ukraine, A Photojournalist Fights for Peace
Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the conflict in Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, reflects on the brutal realities of war.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2023/03/after-witnessing-war-in-ukraine-a-photojournalist-fights-for-peace/
“Humankind repeats the same mistakes over and over again,” Dmitri Beliakov, a photojournalist who covered the war in Ukraine from when it began in 2014 until 2019, tells me. “People never learn, so I did not go on assignment ‘to stop war’ or teach someone a lesson. My agenda was far more realistic if not primitive.

March 24, 2023
Irish war photographer on 15 years in conflict zones: “There are things that are just too much or to | Business Post

Ireland’s leading war photographer on 15 years covering conflict: ‘There are things that are just too much to capture’
‘No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss’ is the first Italian exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett. Supported and staged by fashion house Max Mara founder Achille Maramotti’s Collezione Maramotti, he describes trying to capture the fallout of conflict and displacement
via Business Post: https://www.businesspost.ie/irish-tatler/irish-war-photographer-on-15-years-in-conflict-zones-there-are-things-that-are-just-too-much-or-to/
‘No Home from War: Tales of Survival and Loss’ is the first Italian exhibition by Irish photojournalist Ivor Prickett. Supported and staged by fashion house Max Mara founder Achille Maramotti’s Collezione Maramotti, he describes trying to capture the fallout of conflict and displacement

March 16, 2023
The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer | The New Yorker

The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer
Maksym Levin started documenting war “to become famous.” After seeing conflict up close, his motivations shifted.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-life-and-death-of-a-ukrainian-photographer
According to an investigation by Reporters Without Borders, the men were “undoubtedly executed in cold blood, possibly after being tortured.” At the site of the killing, the Russians shared a meal, leaving behind packaging from their food rations, plastic spoons, cigarette packs, and instructions for firing rockets. Levin’s cell phone, helmet, flak jacket, and shoes were never found.

February 27, 2023
New York Times Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget – The New York Times

Our Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget
In a year of war, New York Times photographers have reported from the front line, from cities and villages and in the footsteps of refugees. These pictures stayed with them.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-anniversary-photos.html
Here, instead, 14 photographers who have worked in Ukraine for The Times each answer the same two questions: What image has stayed with you from your coverage of the first year of the war, and why?

February 24, 2023
The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone

The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone
Thirty years after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous Arkan’s Tigers have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes.
Link: https://investigation.rollingstone.com
A young American photographer watched much of it happen. Ron Haviv met the Tigers in Croatia, where he had photographed them. Arkan liked one picture, in particular: the paramilitary commander standing in front of his uniformed men, posing with a baby tiger in one hand and a gun in the other. So Haviv embedded with the Tigers for one day, on April 2, 1992.

January 7, 2023
Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? – The New York Times

Has War Changed, or Only War Photography?
In the decades between Robert Capa and Lynsey Addario, our image of battle lost its aura of nobility.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/arts/design/war-photography-addario-capa-icp-sva.html
Many Americans no longer regard war as a righteous undertaking — and war photography has played a part in changing our perspective. Pictures in Korea (notably those of David Douglas Duncan) and, even more, those in Vietnam (by Larry Burrows and Don McCullin in particular) stripped warfare of its glamour and romance, zeroing in instead on blood, mud, fatigue, injury and viciousness. Television footage amplified the horror.

October 29, 2022
The Personal Wars of Ukraine’s Women — Blind Magazine

The Personal Wars of Ukraine’s Women — Blind Magazine
Photographer Hailey Sadler writes about her encounters with Ukrainian women during the war that transfigured their country.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/the-personal-wars-of-ukraines-women/
Photographer Hailey Sadler writes about her encounters with Ukrainian women during the war that transfigured their country.

September 20, 2022
Visa pour l’Image in the Shadow of Ukraine — Blind Magazine

Visa pour l’Image in the Shadow of Ukraine — Blind Magazine
For thirty-four years, the international festival of photojournalism “Visa pour l’Image,” in Perpignan, has reflected the world’s upheavals. Ukraine is necessarily at the forefront of this 2022 reiteration, which is also attentive to other crises and which even manages from time to time to come up for air.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/visa-pour-limage-in-the-shadow-of-ukraine/
For thirty-four years, the international festival of photojournalism “Visa pour l’Image,” in Perpignan, has reflected the world’s upheavals. Ukraine is necessarily at the forefront of this 2022 reiteration, which is also attentive to other crises and which even manages from time to time to come up for air.

September 20, 2022
“Beware the Ides of March” Julius Caesar by Jérôme Sessini – burn magazine

“Beware the Ides of March” Julius Caesar by Jérôme Sessini
“Beware the Ides of March” Julius Caesar Photographs and text y Jérôme Sessini In 2014 until 2017, I worked in the Russian-speaking regions of Donbass, in Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol… Russia was cle…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2022/09/beware-the-ides-of-march-julius-caesar-by-jerome-sessini/
In 2014 until 2017, I worked in the Russian-speaking regions of Donbass, in Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol… Russia was clearly supporting the pro-Russian separatists, and the Russian media was showering Russian-speaking civilians with propaganda against the Ukrainian government and against the Western media, but still, the russian-speaking civilians were paying with their lives. I photographed civilians victims of Ukrainian army artillery. I was guided by this feeling of revolt and injustice that I know too well, each time common people are killed, injured, torn apart, by wars that are beyond them…

September 20, 2022
Photographer Lynsey Addario Reflects on Two Decades of Covering Wars and Global Crises | Vanity Fair

“Constantly in Motion”: Photographer Lynsey Addario Reflects on Two Decades of Covering Wars and Global Crises
Vanity Fair caught up with Addario ahead of her career-spanning SVA exhibition, which features work documenting “very intense and historical moments” in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and Ukraine.
via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/photographer-lynsey-addario-two-decades-covering-wars-global-crises
Vanity Fair caught up with Addario ahead of her career-spanning SVA exhibition, which features work documenting “very intense and historical moments” in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and Ukraine.

September 9, 2022
How to Stay Safe While Photographing the War in Ukraine | PetaPixel

How to Stay Safe While Photographing the War in Ukraine
Practical advice for photographers covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine to stay safe and healthy while doing war photography.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/07/31/how-to-stay-safe-while-photographing-the-war-in-ukraine/
“I’d seen so many in Ukraine, in Kyiv without helmet and vest,” Fadek tells PetaPixel. “I saw journalists running around [without personal protective equipment, or PPE] in Irpin, which is a suburb of Kyiv, and Babyn (Babi) Yar, a former holocaust site that was attacked in the initial days of the war.

August 3, 2022
Guillaume Herbaut: “When you cover a conflict, I think it is essential to know the country, its culture, and its history” — Blind Magazine

Guillaume Herbaut: “When you cover a conflict, I think it is essential to know the country, its culture, and its history” — Blind Magazine
A member of the VU’ Agency since 2021, Guillaume Herbaut has been observing history and current events with a keen eye for over thirty years. Ranging from photojournalism to visual art, his work brings a breath of fresh air to documentary photography. Blind sat down to an open conversation about professional photojournalism in the present context of the post-presidential elections in France and the war in Ukraine.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/guillaume-herbaut-when-you-cover-a-conflict-i-think-it-is-essential-to-know-the-country-its-culture-and-its-history/
A member of the VU’ Agency since 2021, Guillaume Herbaut has been observing history and current events with a keen eye for over thirty years. Ranging from photojournalism to visual art, his work brings a breath of fresh air to documentary photography. Blind sat down to an open conversation about professional photojournalism in the present context of the post-presidential elections in France and the war in Ukraine.

June 21, 2022
Photos From Ukraine’s Front Lines – The New York Times

From Ukraine’s Front Lines, Bravery and Wreckage
Amid the roar of artillery and bone-rattling explosions, New York Times photographers have borne graphic witness to the fight to survive. These are their stories and images.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/world/europe/ukraine-war-frontline-photos.html
Amid the roar of artillery and bone-rattling explosions, New York Times photographers have borne graphic witness to the fight to survive. These are their stories and images.

June 1, 2022
From One War To the Next – photos by Oleksandr Glyadyelov — Blind Magazine

From One War To the Next – photos by Oleksandr Glyadyelov — Blind Magazine
In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/from-one-war-to-the-next-photos-by-oleksandr-glyadyelov/
In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine.

May 22, 2022
The Making of War Photography — Blind Magazine

The Making of War Photography — Blind Magazine
The Musée de l’Armée offers a first glimpse into its photographic archives in an exhibition that traces the representation of war and the evolution of images of combat from 1849 to the present. This essential event shares some important lessons.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/the-making-of-war-photography/
The Musée de l’Armée in Paris offers a first glimpse into its photographic archives in an exhibition that traces the representation of war and the evolution of images of combat from 1849 to the present. This essential event shares some important lessons.

May 12, 2022
Inside the Diary of a War Photographer – Feature Shoot

Inside the Diary of a War Photographer – Feature Shoot
“I believe I’m now the longest-running Iraq/Afghanistan NYT-rotation photographer,” Christoph Bangert wrote in his journal on June 24th, 2013, on a plane to Istanbul. “Everybody else stopped covering wars or…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2022/05/inside-the-diary-of-a-war-photographer/
“I believe I’m now the longest-running Iraq/Afghanistan NYT-rotation photographer,” Christoph Bangert wrote in his journal on June 24th, 2013, on a plane to Istanbul. “Everybody else stopped covering wars or is no longer working for the paper. Others got injured or quit photography. Anyway, it makes me feel kind of old. And slightly suspicious. Why I am the last one standing?”

May 12, 2022
What It’s Like to Photograph the War in Ukraine

What It’s Like to Photograph the War in Ukraine
French war photographer Adrien Vautier spent over a month documenting the war unfolding in Ukraine.
Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvnb8m/what-its-like-to-photograph-a-warzone
One of the photojournalists working out of wartorn country was 51-year-old American journalist Brent Renaud. On the 13th of March, Renaud was killed in Irpin, a suburb north-west of Kyiv and one of the main battlefronts in the battle for Kyiv. Thanks to his and other journalists’ work, Irpin made headlines with images of civilians fleeing across the city’s main bridge.

May 12, 2022
The Costs of the Russian Onslaught in Ukraine | The New Yorker

The Costs of the Russian Onslaught in Ukraine
Destruction, brutality, and terrible loss in Bucha, Kharkiv, Irpin, and elsewhere.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/portfolio/05/09/the-costs-of-war
The invasion of Ukraine has been described as the first social-media war, and a key aspect of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership has been his ability to rally his country, and much of the world, via Facebook, Telegram, TikTok, and Twitter. At the same time, war photographers in Bucha, Irpin, and beyond are working—in the tradition of Mathew Brady at Antietam or Robert Capa on Omaha Beach—to capture the grisly realities of what Vladimir Putin insists that his people call a “special military operation.”

May 12, 2022
Opinion | The Photographs of Bucha Should Change the War in Ukraine – The New York Times

Opinion | Photographing Hell
Some images will always have the power to make us confront horror.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/opinion/international-world/ukraine-war-bucha-photographs.html
This image of a man with both eyes open is one of the most compelling and disquieting photos to come out of Bucha. It’s an intimate and puzzling image of death, and I’ve never seen anything like it. What did this man see at the moment of his death? Whatever it was, his resolve remained.

April 16, 2022