Photo exhibition about Mariupol opens in New York
'14.11.2022'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
Howl Arts and Yara Arts Group opened a photo exhibition "Mariupol" in New York. This is an exhibition of award-winning photographs and videos by Yevgeny Maloletka and Mstislav Chernov. They have been filming them since the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The exhibition takes place in New York from November 9 to 20, 2022 at the Howl Archive (Howl Arts / Howl Archive, 250 Bowery, second floor).
There were no funerals, no memorials. No public gatherings to mourn those who died in Russia's relentless attack on the port city of Mariupol. It has become a symbol of Ukraine's fierce resistance. The trenches with mass graves told the story of the besieged city.
The world would not have seen any of this, almost nothing would have seen from Mariupol, if not for Mstislav Chernov and Yevgeny Maloletka, the Associated Press team, who arrived in the city when the invasion began. And they stayed there even after it became one of the most dangerous places on Earth. For more than two weeks they were the only representatives of the international media in the city. And the only journalists capable of transmitting video and photographic materials to the outside world.
Moscow hated their work
The Russian embassy in London tweeted images of the AP photos with the caption "Fake" above them. A senior Russian diplomat showed copies of photographs from the maternity hospital to a UN Security Council meeting, saying they were fake. But the photographs of the journalists were real, and they speak of what really happened in Mariupol.
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Evgeny Maloletka is a Ukrainian military photographer, journalist and film director. Yevhen has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2014. He also covered the Euromaidan revolution, protests in Belarus, the Nagorno-Karabakh war, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine. In 2022, his work during the siege of Mariupol was awarded the Knight International Journalism Award, the Visa d'or News Award and the Bayeux Calvados-Normandie Prize. He has also received awards from Italy, Germany, Norway and the United States.
Mstislav Chernov is a Ukrainian war correspondent, film director, photographer and writer. He is known for his coverage of the Ukrainian Revolution, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the wars in Iraq, Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh, and Afghanistan under Taliban rule after the US withdrawal. He works for the Associated Press.
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