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Ukraine, Before and After the Break

Photographer Robin Hinsch first visited Ukraine in 2010, and has returned many times since. In the process he has created a melancholic vision of a country caught between a contested past, a brutal present, and an uncertain future.

Family photo album in abandoned house. Rahivka Village, Chernobyl Region. 2017 © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos

The War in Ukraine as Seen by Larry Towell

Photographer Larry Towell first visited Ukraine in 2014, witnessing the final days of the country’s Maiden Revolution. He has returned many times since, The History

A man listens to a speech by President Petro Poroshenko marking the first anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on February 20, 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine. February 20th is recognized as the bloodiest day of the revolution, and is used to commemorate the ‘Heavenly Hundred’ who were killed during the uprising. © Pete Kiehart

In Ukraine, of Love and War

Last year, FotoEvidence published the book Ukraine: A War Crime, which focused on the first year of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. This year, the publishing house is releasing a second volume titled Ukraine: Love+War, which looks at Russia’s aggression against Ukraine during the last decade, adding context to the current conflict.

Living in the Middle of Conflict, Donbass, 2018. © Anastasia Taylor-Lind / Imperial War Museums. (photo of the family with the horse)

Anastasia Taylor-Lind: “The Situation has Changed a Lot in Ukraine”

Photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind has been traveling across Ukraine for more than ten years and paints a portrait of a country and a population whose daily life is punctuated by war. Her work, produced with her friend the Ukrainian journalist Alisa Sopova, and entitled “Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline”, is exhibited at the Verdun Memorial (France), offering a sometimes disturbing echo with the images of the First World War. And her work “5k From the Frontline” is presented at the Visa pour l’image festival in Perpignan. She tells Blind about her experience on the front and her vision of the profession.

From the series Citizens of Kyiv, 2022 © Alexander Chekmenev

In Ukraine, a Battle for the Future

At Le Hangar in Brussels, a collective exhibition showcases three generations of Ukrainian photographers. “Generations of Resilience” offers a visual testimony not only to the reality of war, but also to the resilience and artistic evolution of a nation shaped by its history.

Ukraine, vision(s) in la Gaîté Lyrique

What can images and words do in times of war? Unable to oppose weapons, powerless to change a reality that violence is dislocating before our

Timor, 9, raises his fist to greet passing soldiers, shouting "Gloir to Ukraine" or "Russians are pigs" in Droujkivka, Donbass, Ukraine, June 4, 2022.

MYOP in Ukraine: An Agency on the Frontline

Fragments, a book by the MYOP agency, chronicles a tumultuous year of the conflict in Ukraine, as seen by of six member photographers. Proceeds from the book are earmarked for a Ukrainian NGO assisting affected civilians—a testament to the agency’s spirit of solidarity.

At the Ohmatdyt general hospital Vovo, age 13, lost his father in the car when they were attacked, and still has a bullet lodged in his back that needs surgery. © Paula Bronstein for The Times

Ukraine: A War Crime

The book Ukraine: A War Crime brings together the work of 93 photographers who covered the first year of the war in Ukraine, documenting the fighting, its effects on the population, and the visual evidence of war crimes.

Thirs anniversary of Maidan revolution in Kyiv Ukraine on February 19, 2017. © Oksana Parafeniuk

Marseille Pays a Tribute to Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine enters a second year, the Centre Photographique de Marseille presents Ukraine(s), an exhibition bringing together three visual projects that explore the Ukrainian territory and its cultural heritage before its invasion.

Displaced persons who have fled fighting in the east are being served a meal at the Monastery of the Resurrection which comes under the Moscow Patriarchate. Lviv, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. © Lucas Barioulet for Le Monde

Visa pour l’Image in the Shadow of Ukraine

For thirty-four years, the international festival of photojournalism “Visa pour l’Image,” in Perpignan, has reflected the world’s upheavals. Ukraine is necessarily at the forefront of this 2022 reiteration, which is also attentive to other crises and which even manages from time to time to come up for air.

A young couple could not stop hugging - the man received a summon and reported to the military enlistment office for further instructions. © Ismail Ferdous / VU' for Blind

The Last Goodbyes in the Border Regions of Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine continues to rage, the flood of refugees from the fighting continue to flow west across the country’s borders. But as women and children flee, their husbands, fathers and brothers remain to fight the Russians, while others refuse to leave home. Photographer Ismail Ferdous spent time photographing those preparing to fight, those fleeing abroad, and those who choose to stay as they all say goodbye.

© Photograph by Peter Turnley

The Exodus From Ukraine: A Visual Diary by Peter Turnley

The French American photographer, known for his documentation of the human condition over the past 40 years, shares his experience alongside Ukrainian refugees, from the day he left his home in Paris, and returned.

© Ismail Ferdous / VU' for Blind

People of Ukraine

In the village of Kontsovo, near the Slovakian border, photographer Ismail Ferdous asked several displaced Ukrainians to pose on the stage of a theater in the colors of their country, collecting their stories at the same time.

PhotoVogue, the Eye That Refuses to Blink

The Festival returns to its founding obsession — the female gaze — and transforms Milan’s most venerable library into a chamber of visual dissent.

Requiem for a Glacier

For forty years, Ragnar Axelsson has been composing a visual elegy for the dying Arctic. Where the World is Melting, published by Kehrer Verlag, bears majestic witness to this silent collapse.

From Architectural Ruins to the Theaters of Paris

The photographer from Nantes, France travels the globe to capture the history of decaying architectural heritage in long-term, ever-evolving series. This month, he released his first book devoted to around 50 active theaters in the Île-de-France region — some forgotten, others unknown.

Ed Kashi: Looking Back While Moving Forward

Ed Kashi has dedicated the past 45 years to documenting the social and geopolitical issues that define our era. His newest book is an expansive retrospective of photographs spanning the world and his prolific career.

The World Is No Longer Right

For its 37th edition, the festival Visa pour l’Image, in France, continues to show us, head-on, through images and their captions, the state of the world as it is, and the crises it is going through.

Sebastião Salgado: The Man Who Made Visible

More than any other photographer of his generation, Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) crystallized the challenges of photojournalism at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Here are memories of three meetings with a man of the world, who never felt “different from others.”

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MYOP: The Pulse Of An Era

“Mes yeux, objets patients. MYOP, 20 Years of a Story in Motion” at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles marks the 20th anniversary of the MYOP photo agency, with a 400m² manifesto-exhibition on the meaning of bearing witness.

Patrick Wack: Invaded Landscapes

In the exhibition “Azov Horizons,” part of Les Rencontres de la Photographie festival in Arles, photographer Patrick Wack captures a once-idyllic region now suspended between violence, silence, and the fading shadow of what it was before the invasion of southern Ukraine.

Les nuées de sables, Sahara du projet « Le Nuage qui parlait », 2011 à nos jours, Triptyque, Tirage photographique © Yo-Yo Gonthier © Adagp, 2025

“Shifting Landscapes”: The Stories the Earth Tells Us 

Until March 23, 2025, the festival “Shifting Landscapes” at Jeu de Paume in Paris invites us to immerse ourselves in territories captured by 15 artists. Through a series of installations, visitors embark on a journey from the creation of the world to its potential disappearance.

From the project "I Am About to Call It a Day." 2010 © Bieke Depoorter / Magnum Photos

Magnum Chronicles: The Power of Collective Storytelling

While president Donald Trump has been in office since January 20, 2025, Magnum Photos publishes a group publication around the theme of the United States, inspired by its long history of collective storytelling.

Youth, Beauty and Air Raids

Kyiv-based artist Vic Bakin’s book “Epitome” merges archival photographs with new images from war-torn Ukraine exploring themes of fragility, masculinity, war and uncertainty.

Renault factory workers on strike, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, May-June 1936

Robert Capa: Icons, Unpublished Images, and Confidences

The American photographer is being honored with an exhibition at Les Franciscaines, in Deauville (France), and a magnificent accompanying book, published by Atelier EXB. The latter contains his most famous photos, a selection of lesser-known images and a host of stories and anecdotes that add to the myth.

Bosnian Memories

Almost 30 years after the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, photographer Fabrice Dekoninck reflects on the memory of those who survived the siege of Sarajevo, the ethnic purge in the Prijedor region and the genocide in Srebrenica, in a book entitled Between Fears and Hope.

June 6, D-Day: 530 Witnesses

The Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie celebrates its 30th edition, honoring the contributions of photojournalists across the globe. This year holds special significance as it anticipates the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings—witnessed by war correspondents who risked their lives to document it.

ZOOM Photo: An Underdog of the North that Dares to Dream Big

In its 14th installment, the Zoom Photo Festival in Saguenay, Northern Quebec, proudly presents works from roughly twenty photographers, alongside the World Press Photo traveling exhibition. We delve into a burgeoning photo festival that steadily rises in prominence, without ever losing its core identity.

© Ismail Ferdous

In the Eyes of Ismail Ferdous

Ismail Ferdous is a photographer who documents contemporary social and humanitarian issues. In an interview with Blind, he discusses his journey and his curiosity for the world and people’s stories.

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Visa pour l’Image: Facing the World

From the Iranian uprising to Californian startups, from the war in Ukraine to Afghanistan and climate breakdown, the 35th edition of Perpignan’s international photojournalism festival continues to confront us with the world’s tragedies.

Pearson Road – July 2021.

Un, Deux, Trois, We’re Going to Blois

The Loire Valley produces some fine vintages, even when it comes to photography. Festival Promenades Photographiques invites visitors on a tour of fifteen exhibitions around the city of Blois: an ode to movement.

Raphaël and Alfred Yagobzadeh

Profession: Parent Photographer

How to manage family life when your profession encroaches on your private sphere? Three photojournalists share their experiences with Blind.

At the Heart of It

The International Month of Photojournalism in Padova, Italy, brings together photographers from all over the world to trigger cultural debate and roundtable discussions on contemporary issues and ethical journalism.

© Evgeniy Maloletka, Associated Press, World Press Photo of the Year

Ukrainian Photographer Wins World Press Photo Award

Each year, the World Press Photo contest rewards the most outstanding photos of the year. On Thursday, April 20, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka received the World Press Photo of the Year award for his picture of the besieged maternity ward of Mariupol, in Ukraine.