While photographing a damaged apartment building in Kyiv, “I was thinking about the people spending their whole lives saving money to buy an apartment, and in two minutes everything is gone,” Jérôme Sessini said.
, in central Kyiv, vowing to stay put; pregnant women at a maternity ward in Mariupol, fleeing for their lives; civilians lying motionless on the ground in Bucha, outside Kyiv, executed by retreating Russian forces.
The photographer Jérôme Sessini first came to Ukraine in late February, 2014, just as the Maidan Revolution was reaching its violent conclusion. He saw people felled by sniper fire, then watched the protesters mourn their dead after Viktor Yanukovych, the nation’s Russian-backed President, fled the country. After that, Sessini kept returning to Ukraine, spending time, in particular, in the breakaway republics in the east.
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