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Ukraine-Russia War

Kristina Rozhkova’s scatty, confronting portrait of captivity

Gut Feeling — The Russian artist’s 2024 arrest and subsequent detention opened her eye towards the omnipresent dynamics of power and control. Her new photobook is a stark exploration of being trapped.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
Two men sitting on a wooden structure at night.

The Ukrainian skatepark sanctuary on the frontlines of war

Krytka — In Okhtyrka, just 50km from the border with Russia, a crew of young skaters, musicians and friends gutted out an abandoned factory, filling it with ramps and music equipment to create a shelter of community and resilience.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
Two young women making silly facial expressions, one with a grey coat and the other in a black coat, in front of a white building.

Tender, carefree portraits of young Ukrainians before the war

Diary of a Stolen Youth — On the day that a temporary ceasefire is announced, a new series from photographer Nastya Platinova looks back at Kyiv’s bubbling youth culture before Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion. It presents a visual window for young people into a possible future, as well as the past.

  • Culture
  • Hannah Bentley
Group of people dancing at a live music performance, with a large "Spaces Beats" sign in the background.

Amid tensions in Eastern Europe, young Latvians are reviving their country’s folk rhythms

Spaces Between the Beats — The Baltic nation’s ancient melodies have long been a symbol of resistance, but as Russia’s war with Ukraine rages on, new generations of singers and dancers are taking them to the mainstream.

  • Music
  • Jack Styler

Russian hacktivists are using CCTV networks to protest Putin

Putin’s Jail — In Kurt Caviezel’s project using publicly accessible surveillance networks from around the world, he spotlights messages of resistance spread among the cameras of its biggest country.

  • Activism
  • Laura Witucka

Documenting the effects of war on life along the Polish-Ukrainian border

Photographer Tommy Sussex captures the anxieties and fragile sense of peace for local people along Poland’s border with Ukraine and Belarus.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

The queer fighters on the frontlines in Ukraine

A new film by Huck reveals the experiences of queer Ukrainians forced to defend their country and the LGBTQ+ community after Russia’s full-scale invasion.

  • Huck Docs
  • Alex King

A portrait of resilience in the face of war in Ukraine

Photographer Ira Lapu recalls returning to her home country to document the lives of ordinary Ukrainians amid a brutal conflict.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Stories of life under siege in Ukraine’s Donbas region

‘We’re barely surviving’ — Photojournalist Fiora Garenzi spoke with people still living in Eastern Ukraine, an area which seen some of the heaviest fighting since the war began.

  • Activism
  • Fiora Garenzi

Young Ukrainians are fighting for the future they’ve built

Resistance pulses through Kyiv’s interconnected subcultures. As a full-scale Russian invasion threatens everything, the movement is fighting back to prevent Putin from destroying the world they’ve worked for.

  • Huck 77
  • Alex King

The young activists smuggling military equipment into Ukraine

Secret weapon — A group of Ukrainians living in Poland are helping Ukraine withstand Russia’s brutal invasion by buying supplies and shipping them directly to the war’s frontlines.

  • Activism
  • Peter Liakhov

The Kyiv residents determined to keep their city running

‘In my soul I had to stay‘ — So far, 11 million people have fled Ukraine. But what happens to the ordinary civilians who choose to stay behind?

  • Activism
  • Shelley Jones

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