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.

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“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.

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.

A firsthand account of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine

The conflict in Ukraine comes on and off the international media spotlight, but whether there’s news about it or not, the tensions and armed fighting in the Donbas region never really cool off. Russian photographer Dmitri Beliakov’s Ukrainian Chronicles is an extensive documentation of this conflict and of the ongoing struggle that continues even after the cameras are turned off. Beliakov’s images might make you want to avert your eyes, but they are such a necessary account of how a conflict zone is more than just a news narrative, and of how terribly painful and rough war really is.