Searching for Honesty in Ukraine’s Murky War – Photographs and text by Maks Levin | LensCulture

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Searching for Honesty in Ukraine’s Murky War – Photographs and text by Maks Levin | LensCulture

A war-battered but resolutely committed photographer offers truthful, soul-searching thoughts on the meaning of photojournalism

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This commitment to a nuanced moral high ground has its costs. In Levin’s eyes, “I can say that we are losing the information war to Russia, because we give more silence and are less united about our informational strategy. Meanwhile, Russian reporters work for propaganda commissioned by their government. In other words, these are not times to wait for truth to simply weigh down the scales. Things won’t work out just because that is how ‘it’s supposed to be.’ Remember, the informational war is no less dirty than the one going in the fields. We have to be less salient, less afraid about telling truth.”