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‘Showing the truth matters’: The emotional challenge of war photography in Ukraine
From 25 January to 8 April 2022, Vadim Ghirda took some of the most strong and recognisable pictures of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the beginning acquiring an desire in images as a way to match in at get-togethers, Ghirda joined the AP in 1990 when he was just 18 several years previous. Since then he is coated advanced social and political conflicts in countries these types of as Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Macedonia and most a short while ago, Ukraine. The initial days of the Russian invasion uncovered Ghirda in bombarded Kharkiv, Ukraine’s 2nd-premier city, crouching in the snow up coming to a dead soldier and a wrecked Russian rocket…