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The Agony that Ukrainian Photographers Undercover from the Russian War September 9, 2023

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One year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, photojournalists have seen it all. Weary from attending far too many funerals and finding bodies under the rubble, many feel a sense of duty to document Moscow’s aggression for all the world to see.

It’s hard not to get involved sometimes in ways that go beyond the camera. In one moment, Pavlo Petrov, a photographer for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, found himself picking up a fire extinguisher to put out flames after a rocket attack in Kyiv.

With all the death and destruction in Ukraine, many photojournalists say they are drawn to capture subtle moments of joy amid the tragedy. Nicole Tung recalls children playing on a colorful swing set with destroyed buildings in the background in Borodyanka, in northern Ukraine. Meanwhile, Petrov remembers returning a gymnastics suit found in the rubble to a 7-year-old girl who was rescued from a Russian rocket attack but whose father did not make it.

The moments of hope are often short-lived. Felipe Dana remembers stepping outside at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Celebratory chants were quickly followed by the sound of air raid sirens across Kyiv.

 

One of the most defining moments for Petrov, he says, was after a rocket attack in Kyiv on March 1. After arriving on the scene with firefighters and rescuers, he saw several burned bodies. He picked up a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.

Petrov, who is a photographer for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, had been photographing firefighters in Luhansk, a partially occupied region, since 2017; this helped him adapt to covering the war up-close over the last year.

His photography is a way to push back against Russian propaganda, he says. “It is also very important that people abroad see it. Ukrainians are a strong nation and thanks to the support of the world, we become even stronger.”

Ukraine war: Russia attacks grain stores at River Danube ports July 25, 2023

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Russian drones have attacked Ukrainian ports on the River Danube, destroying grain storage infrastructure, local officials say.

The facilities are just across the river from Nato-member Romania.

The Danube is a key export route for Kyiv since Russia pulled out of a deal allowing Ukraine to ship wheat, corn and other products via the Black Sea.

A grain depot was also destroyed in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, which has come under almost nightly attack.

Officials say more than 60,000 tonnes of grain have been destroyed in the past week.

Global markets have seen the price of grain rise by 8% within a day of Russia’s pullout from the grain deal, on 17 July.

The collapse of the deal also means that Russia has resumed targeting of port locations in Ukraine which had been suspended during the deal.

Odesa head Oleh Kiper, whose region also covers the Danube ports of Reni and Izmail, said in his Telegram channel that Russia had attacked the infrastructure there for four hours with Iranian-made drones.

He said a grain hangar and tanks for storage were destroyed. Other local officials say three warehouses were bombed.

Three drones out of about 15 involved in the attack were destroyed by air defences, Mr Kiper added.

Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa Targeted by Russia’s Terrorist State July 25, 2023

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At least one person has been killed and 19 injured in Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, officials have said. 

The Transfiguration Cathedral in the Unesco world heritage-listed historic centre was also badly damaged.

Russia claimed its Odesa targets were being used to prepare “terrorist acts” and blamed Sunday’s cathedral attack on Ukrainian air defence.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed retaliation.

Moscow has been launching near-constant attacks on Odesa since it withdrew from a landmark grain deal on Monday.

Regional governor Oleh Kiper said 14 people, including four children, were taken to hospital on Sunday after the blasts – that also destroyed six residential buildings. .

Kyiv accused Russia of “destroying” the cathedral as part of a campaign to “systematically” harm the Orthodox Church in the country.

“A war crime that will never be forgotten and forgiven #RussiaIsATerroristState,” its foreign ministry tweeted.

Prestigious Win for Daryna Zadvirna in the West June 16, 2023

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Daryna Zadvirna’s eye-opening documentary from the lines of the front of the war in Ukraine enabled

her to emerge victoriuos as the Walkley Foundations John B Fairfax Family   Australian Young Australian

Journalist of the Year.

Zadvirna, who is also the reigning WA Journaliast of  the Year , won two more Walkleys in the Longform feature

and best visual story telling categories for her hard hitting MY UKRAINE, Inside the Warzone,

This significant achievement was achieved by taking personal leave, bought a camera and independently

travelled to Ukraine to tell story shocking stories from the War Zone.

Ukrainian embroidery day May 19, 2023

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Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees living in New York are coming together to honour a homeland tradition which celebrates the country’s national dress.

Vyshyvanka Day, held on the third Thursday of every May, is marked by the wearing of traditional Ukrainian embroidered clothes called vyshyvanka.

Photo Bohdan Warchomij

 

 

Anzac Inspiration and Ukrainian Courage Photos Bohdan Warchomij April 27, 2023

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On a day when Australians celebrate their Anzac spirit  born on the battlefields of Gallipoli it is worth remembering

the battles of the Ukrainians and their warrior nation of the Kozaks against the autocrats of the muscovites to preserve their independence against  an immoral

land grab in Crimea and Donetsk. They are fighting with  Churchillian courage to preserve a hard fought democratic freedom.

 

 

 

 

 

The ecllpse impacted on Western Australia April 22, 2023

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The conjunction of natural forces from the eclipse centred on Exmouth impacted on us in many different ways. Pilot Michelle Yeats flew back from Exmouth with her son and engine failure meant she had to land in Mosman Dog Beachwaters 30 metres from shore  to avoid beach goers.

Luckily the two travellers survived injury free.  On the following day the media gathered at the site of the crash as police pondered on the task ahead of them on Saturday.

Boola Bardip The West Australian Museum sold out of solar sunglasses and the rest of us improvised in various ways. The international surfers in Margaret River paused for the obvious reason during the duration of the eclipse.

 

 

ROSA BARBA : Emanations PICA The Italian Artists Experiments with Resuscitated 35mm and 16 mm technologies is astonishingly clever and concludes as part of the Festival of Perth on Sunday 22 4 2023 April 22, 2023

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April 21, 2023

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Winner – World Press Photo of the Year

Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, in the chaotic aftermath of a Russian attack.

The Ukrainian photographer’s March 9, 2022, image of the fatally wounded woman, her left hand on her bloodied lower left abdomen, drove home the horror of Russia’s brutal onslaught in the eastern port city early in the war.

The 32-year-old woman, Iryna Kalinina, died of her injuries a half-hour after giving birth to the lifeless body of her baby, named Miron.

“For me, it is a moment that all the time I want to forget, but I cannot. The story will always stay with me,” Maloletka said in an interview before the announcement.

World Press Photo Foundation Executive Director Joumana El Zein Khoury told the AP that jury members decided quickly Maloletka’s image should win the prestigious prize.

She said it was “apparent from the beginning that it needed to win”.

“All the jury members said it really from the beginning of the judging,” she said.

“And why? Because it really shows how war and especially in this case, the Ukrainian war, affects not only one generation, but multiple generations.”

This and many other photos from Ukraine have brought tears to my eyes and huge respect to the photographers who have shown huge courage  to record Putin’s atrocities.

The immorality of Putin’s war on the culture of the incredible people of Ukraine. He has no empathy for humanity and little empathy  for the Ukrainian people who have suffered

for many years at the hands of Russia. Evgeny Malolitka deserves accolades for his work and the International Press award is the best of all accolades. Congratulations to Evgenij and huge sympathy to Irina Kalinina  who lost  her life and her child in a crime that is unforgivable.

Ukrainian Easter 2023 Photos Bohdan Warchomij April 18, 2023

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An elderly woman rescues icons  miraculously spared at an Easter church in the Zaporizhya region of Ukraine on Sunday the 16th of April during a Russian rocket attack. Easter is a special annual festival for the followers of orthodox Christianity and especially this year in Ukraine, symbolising hope, renewal and growth. It is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb on the third day after his crucifixion. Unlike Christmas, the festival of Easter is not celebrated on the same day every year, it is called a moveable feast. Unlike Christmas, the festival of Easter is not celebrated on the same day every year, it is called a moveable feast. This day falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon on or after March 21st and as late as April 11. This year, the day falls on April 4th. The word “Easter” is derived from the term “Eastra”, the name of the ancient German Goddess of Spring.
In Perth, Western Australia, orthodox and Catholic Christians gathered at the Church of St John the Baptist to collectively celebrate this holy ritual while the war raged on .

A decorated Easter egg completed on Easter Saturday by a young girl prior to the Sunday blessing of the family Easter Basket Photo Bohdan Warchomij

A young girl guards her family Easter basket prior to the blessing of it Photo Bohdan Warchomij

Women arrive at the Ukrainian Easter Service in their Ukrainian Finery at a Maylands Ukrainian Church in Perth as war rages in their homeland Photo Bohdan Warchomij METAPHOR IMAGES 16 April 2023

Ukrainian Parish priest Ihor Holovko blesses baskets at the Church of St John the Baptist in Maylands assisted by Australian priests and deacons.

Ukrainian Symbolism Photo Bohdan Warchomij Metaphor Images

Roztiazhka Ukrainian Dance Group Instructors Melissa Cawley and Mark Petrowsky Below A special military service at St Michael's cathedral in Kyiv Photo Bohdan Warchomij