Location: UCRAINA

War is often associated with hatred. It’s surprising how much love it can reveal.

There’s a proverb that says, “The wound heals, but the scar remains.” Russia’s decade long war will profoundly impact Ukrainian children. They will carry invisible marks and trauma that may take a lifetime to heal, having been deprived of their childhood and precious moments with friends and family. Their mothers and grandmothers are enduring more sexual and gender-based violence, while often facing important survival decisions for their families. Many of their fathers and brothers are Ukrainian soldiers dealing with PTSD and, when the war finally ends, they might come back to a devastated country that may not have the resources for the psychological support needed.

In the face of the disruption and displacement of families and the terror of war, these photographers captured an outpouring of love: young couples fall in love, couples stick together, parents protect their children, partners of the missing long for their loved ones, and families grieve their loss. These are stories of hope, sacrifice, determination and love.

The Ukraine: Love+War 2014-2024 exhibit is inspired by the book of the same name published by FotoEvidence. The book features over 240 photographs by ninety-five international photojournalists, collaborating together to capture the profound impact of Russia’s decade-long war on children and families in Ukraine. The publication of Ukraine: Love+War (2014-2024) and this exhibit are supported by the Open Society Foundations Western Balkans.

ABOUT Lynsey Addario – Carol Guzy – Evgeniy Maloletka – Brendan Hoffman – Oksana Parafeniuk – Alex Kent — Chris McGrath – Diego Ibarra Sanchez – Fabio Bucciarelli – Johanna Maria Fritz – Maxim Dondyuk – Michael Logsdon – Pete Kiehart – Natalie Keyssar – Sitara Thalia Ambrosio – Sasha Maslov

Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photojournalist. She has worked for Associated Press, New York Times and National Geographic. Through her photographs she has chronicled the aftermath of war focusing on the plight of women and children, as well as human rights. During her reports, she was kidnapped twice and injured in a serious automobile accident.

Carol Guzy

Carol Guzy is an American photojournalist. She worked as a staff photographer for the Miami Herald and The Washington Post and she won the Pulitzer Prize four times, the first journalist ever with that achievement.

Evgeniy Maloletka

Evgeniy Maloletka is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Ukrainian war photographer, journalist, and filmmaker who has covered the war in Ukraine since 2014. In February and March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Maloletka was one of the few journalists present in Mariupol, and his photographs were widely used by Western media to cover the situation.

Brendan Hoffman

Brendan Hoffman is an American documentary photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a founding member of the photographic collective, Prime. Hoffman is a contributing photographer to National Geographic magazine, The New York Times, and other leading publications. Covering the war in Ukraine, he met the colleague Oksana Parefaniuk. They had a child together in the middle of the war.

Oksana Parafeniuk

Oksana Parafeniuk is an independent photographer based in Kyiv, where she is exploring the manifestations of human resilience and dignity among people facing hardships. She has published her work in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, NBC News and others. During the war in Ukraine, she met colleague Brendan Hoffman and they had a child together.

Alex Kent

Alex Kent is New York-based freelance photojournalist. His background in civil legal services equipped him with an unwavering commitment to serving the underserved. He is a contributor to the New York Times, New York Magazine, Getty Images, AFP, WNYC, among others.

Chris McGrath

Chris McGrath has been on staff with Getty Images for the past nineteen years and has been based out of their New York, Singapore and Tokyo offices. His work regularly appears in major newspaper, news magazines around the world and he has received several times awards from World Press Photo.

Fabio Bucciarelli

Fabio Bucciarelli is an international photographer, journalist, and author renowned for his coverage of global conflicts. His unwavering commitment to telling important stories through vivid imagery and detailed reporting has earned him widespread recognition and respect within the industry: Robert Capa Gold Medal, 10 Picture of the Year International awards, 2 World Press Photo awards, 2 Sony World Photography Award, etc.

Diego Ibarra Sánchez

Diego Ibarra Sánchez is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, and educator based in Lebanon. His work primarily focuses on long-form visual storytelling. He has been a contributor to The New York Times and has published his stories in various newspapers, magazines, and TV channels, including France 24, Revista 5W, CNN, Der Spiegel, NZZ, Diari ARA, UNHCR, and UNICEF, among others.

Johanna-Maria Fritz

Johanna-Maria Fritz is currently working in Afghanistan. Her work focuses on disadvantaged or forgotten groups, women and conflict zones. As a member of Ostkreuz Agency since 2019, she was awarded the Inge Morath Prize, the Peace Prize for Photography and the PH Grant for Photography.

Maxim Dondyuk

Maxim Dondyuk is a Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, who combines photography, video, text, and archival material in his work. He explores issues of history, memory, conflicts, and their consequences.

Pete Kiehart

Pete Kiehart is an American visual journalist and artist who lives in Washington, DC. Since 2015, he has devoted much of his time to covering the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, including from 2015-16 when he lived in Kyiv and in 2022 when he witnessed the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion from Kramatorsk. He worked at Reportage by Getty Images, CNN New York and ONCE Magazine.

Sitara Thalia Ambrosio

Sitara Ambrosio reports and publishes internationally. She usually works on gender issues and human rights violations – in Germany, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Ambrosio is represented by the agency Laif and a member of the Female Photo Club.

Michael Logsdon

Mike Logsdon, who splits work between photojournalism, charitable missions, and running the company he co-founded, has recently been documenting the conflict in Ukraine.

Sasha Maslov

Sasha Maslov is a Ukrainian-American portrait and documentary photographer based between Kyiv and New York. His work has been published in The New York Times, CNN, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Esquire, Forbes, Billboard, Men’s Health and has been exhibited in various photo galleries and art spaces around Europe and the United States.

Natalie Keyssar

Natalie Keyssar is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a Pulitzer Center Grantee, interested in inequality, youth culture, and the personal effects of political turmoil and violence, primarily in the US and Latin America. She has contributed to publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Time, Bloomberg Business Week.