2023 Winner

Ukraine: A War Crime 2014-2024

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The 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award Is dedicated to the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and war crimes committed on Ukrainian soil. During the application process, from September to December 2022 FotoEvidence received around 5000 images from more than one hundred photojournalists from 35 countries united to tell their firsthand testimony about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka of the Associated Press March 11, 2022 Mariupol Ukraine

Explosion from a rocket fired by a Russian tank, on an apartment building in Mariupol

Often images came with a text written by the photographer about their experience. Like Nicole Tung who wrote: "From the end of February 2022 to October, we have witnessed the occupation of large swaths of a sovereign nation by an outside power, with the singular aim of erasing the Ukrainian nation and identity. We have also witnessed the recapture of some of these territories, all within a span of nine months, and the scale of atrocities is only becoming clear as temporary joy over regaining freedom gives way to calculating the costs, and the sacrifices made. In these images are the testimonies of the living and the dead, who speak in equal terms of all that has been endured.”

Photo:Espen Rasmussen/VII/VG 20122-03-12 Krakow Poland

The train station in Krakow, Poland, is overwhelmed by the numbver of Ukrainian refugees. All of them wait for train or help to get to other destinations in Poland or abroad. Almost 100.000 Ukrainians arrived in Krakow the first two weeks after the Russian invation of Ukraine.

Photo: Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times February 25, 2022 Fastive Ukraine

Military volunteers at a weapons storage facility receive weapons after the Ukrainian government announced they would arm civilians to resist the Russian invasion on Friday, February 25, 2022 in Fastiv, Ukraine.

Photo: Vyacheslav Ratynskyi March 1 , 2022 Zhytomyr Ukraine

Volunteers train to throw Molotov cocktails to stop Russian armoured vehicles.

Photo: Fabio Bucciarelli 2022-03-05 Kiev Ukraine

A woman is comforted inside a van during the evacuation of Irpin, a city north of Kyiv under attack by Russian artillery, March 5, 2022. Villages north of Kyiv have been under attack by Russian artillery since the early days. of the invasion.

Photo: Nicole Tung for The New York Times June 23, 2022 Vorzel Ukraine

Police and forensic investigators exhumed the bodies of seven men, believed to be civilians killed by Russian forces in March, near Vorzel, Ukraine. Seven bodies of men believed to be civilians were found in a mass grave in a pine forest west of Bucha on Monday, near a network of trenches used by Russian soldiers. He said a preliminary examination revealed gunshots to the knee, head, with some of the men having had their hands bound.

With photographer's images and text FotoEvidence has created a book as a testament of the atrocity of war, Russia’s indiscriminate violence and the strength of Ukrainian identity.

The bi-lingual book, in Ukrainian and English, has been published in June 2023.

Photographers contributing to the book:

Celestino Arce, Juan Arredondo, Oscar B. Castillo, Aggelos Barai, Jerome Barbosa, Daniel Berehulak, Cristopher Rogel Blanquet, Laura Boushnak, Eric Bouvet, Maryna Brodovska, Paula Bronstein, Fabio Bucciarelli, Daniel Carde, Rui Caria, Juan Carlos, Dmytro Chaika, Narciso Contreras, Maxim Dondyuk, Stephen Dupont,Yurko Dyachyshyn , Timothy Fadek, Diego Fedele, Javier Fergo, Oleksii Furman, Gaelle Girbes, Bogdan Gulyay, Amnon Gutman, David Guttenfelder, Carol Guzy, Ron Haviv, Brendan Hoffman, Scott Hopkins, Serhii Hudak , J. Daniel Hud, Svet Jacqueline, Patryk Jaracz, Edward Kaprov, Liam Kennedy, Pete Kiehart, Ziv Koren, Dima Kornilov, Serhii Korovayny, Dmytro Kozatskyi, Dmytro Kupriyan, Antoni Lallican, Maks Levin, Heidi Levine, Andoni Lubaki, Darrin Zammit Lupi, André Luís Alves, Evgeniy Maloletka, Sasha Maslov, Chris McGrath, Gabriele Micalizzi, Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Ioana Moldovan, Jonathan Moore, Olena Morozova, Katerina Moskalyuk, Christopher Nunn, Christopher Occhicone, Finbarr O'Reilly, Cheney Orr, Mykhaylo Palinchak, Oksana Parafeniuk, Marion Péhée, Hector Quintanar, Nikos Pilos, Giulio Piscitelli, Serghii Poznanski, Diego Radamés, Espen Rasmussen, Vyacheslav Ratynsky, Warren Richardson, J.B. Russell, Rui Duarte Silva, Diego Ibarra Sanchez, Wolfgang Shwan, Byron Smith, Alina Smutko, Maranie Staab, John Stanmeyer, Matej Sulc, Adrienne Surprenant, Joseph Sywenkyj, Nicole Tung, Eddy van Wessel, Laetitia Vancon, Tainui Kewish Wihongi, Rafael Yaghobzadeh, Stas Yurchenko.

Photo: Adrienne Suprenant 2022-04-23 1 Dovzhyk Ukraine

Irina and her brother Mykola pose for a portrait in their fmaily house, in Dovzhyk, Ukraine, on Sat. April 23, 2022. The three brothers Kulichenko were first detained in their house by the Russians, after someone denounced them as being a veteran of the Eastern War front and an ex-policemen. They were then detained ni an other village and tortured for two days. The Russians brought them to a distant location and shot them in the back of the head. Mykola survived as the bullet only went through his ear, and managed to walk 40-45 kilometers back home. Dmytro, 36-years-old and Yevheniy, 30-years-old, died.

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