Photoreports

As Russia’s war on Ukrainian energy intensifies, blackouts roll across both Kyiv and the nation. The capital slips into an unfamiliar darkness—streets lit only by headlights, flashlights, and the flicker of candlelight behind windows.

Russia killed Kostiantyn Huzenko, 28, a marine, photographer, and press officer. Huzenko belonged to a generation for whom creation and resistance became inseparable, and in remembering him, we remember the cost of both.

Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Diary—a color-rich portrait of post-Soviet Ukraine—opens in London after debuting in Paris in 2022. Ukrainian Photographer Boris Mikhailov and Paris-based curator Laurie Hurwitz reflect on the decades-long artistic journey that shaped the exhibition, from the radical Kharkiv School of Photography to the transgressive Case Study series, and on creating art in the midst of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Groot and Xerox, twin Mavic drone pilots with Ukraine’s Kara-Dag brigade, have been on the frontlines since 2022. Once in the infantry, they now operate in the Kupiansk direction, flying just two kilometers from intensifying fighting.

Once the beating industrial heart of Donbas, Kramatorsk now beats for survival. During World War II, its factories forged weapons to fight Nazi Germany. That same industrial foundation made Kramatorsk a strategic target again during Russia’s 2014 and 2022 invasions. It’s one of the last major cities before the front line.

The seaside festival opened without the sea—in Kyiv instead of Odesa—with a program stretching from choreography to the front line, for a public that needs a breather as much as the truth.