“Siege of Mariupol – the last journalists in the occupied city”

12.10.2023

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Deadline

12.10.2023

Year: 2022
Venue: Prague, Czech Republic

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Within the framework of the Czech Photo 2022 festival, the Czech Photo Center Gallery in Prague opened the exhibition “Siege of Mariupol — The Last Journalists in the Occupied City”, which presented the world-famous works of Mstislav Chernov and Yevhen Maloletka. The project was implemented by the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) in cooperation with Czech Photo and the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic (APF).

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From a city that had almost half a million inhabitants before the war, using a satellite phone, journalists talked about surviving without electricity, communication, water and food. Through their work, the world learned about the bloody horror that the Russians seized the city, in particular, the attack on the Mariupol Maternity Hospital, which became one of the symbols of the brutality of this war. Their vivid visual evidence, which appeared in the media around the world, caused the discontent of the Russian establishment. This showed the complete opposite of their propaganda, which caused journalists to be put on the list of undesirable persons. At critical moments, they hid in a hospital in Mariupol under the guise of doctors. From there they were evacuated by the Ukrainian military.

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“We were reporting in the hospital when armed people appeared in the corridors. Surgeons gave us doctor's robes as camouflage. At dawn, a dozen soldiers burst into the hospital again. “Where the hell are the journalists?” they asked. I looked at the bandages on their hands — blue, Ukrainian — and thought how likely it was that they were disguised Russians. I stepped forward to introduce myself. “We came to extract you,” says Mstislav Chernov, photographer and film director.

Both authors became members of the international jury of the 28th Czech Press Photo contest this year.