Ukrainian photojournalist Julia Kochetova wins the World Press Photo award
Ukrainian photojournalist Julia Kochetova became a regional winner of the international World Press Photo award, as reported on the award's website.
Julia won with her project "War is Personal".
"This project weaves together photographic images with poetry, audio clips, and music. The photographer’s multidisciplinary presentation grounds the facts of war in her subjective experience, and simultaneously allows her to inject more emotion and symbolism than photographs might convey on their own. As a whole, the project provides a singular, personal perspective on the unfortunately all-too-familiar images of war," the WPP writes.
Ukrainian photojournalist Julia Kochetova became a regional winner of the international World Press Photo award. Photo by Julia Kochetova on Facebook.
Julia Kochetova is a Ukrainian journalist specializing in social documentary photography. She has been reporting on the occupation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas since 2014; her work has been published in many international outlets: BBC Online, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The National Geographic, etc.
After February 24, 2022, she resumed active reporting on the impact of the war, taking photos in Kyiv and being among the first journalists to arrive at the sites of residential house strikes. She has filmed Odesa, the Irpin evacuation, the occupation aftermath in Bucha and the Kyiv oblast villages, the work of Kharkiv first responders; documented the frontline work of paramedics.
Two years into Russia's full-scale invasion, she continues to take pictures of the war and its consequences.
In 2023, Ukrainian photojournalist Yevhen Maloletka became a regional winner of a prestigious international World Press Photo award. He won with his photo report "The Siege of Mariupol".
Yevhen Maloletka's photo "Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike" was also declared the World Press Photo of the year. The photo features men carrying an injured pregnant woman, Iryna Kalinina, on a stretcher out of the maternity hospital after the March 9, 2022 Russian airstrike. It was later reported that the child was stillborn and Iryna died after giving birth.
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