Ukraine: A War Crime – a book by photographers documenting the war’s first year
www.theguardian.com
Ukraine: A War Crime is about the first year of the war in Ukraine and the many photographers who risked their lives to tell this tragic story. The book is a collection of photographs and witness accounts by 93 photojournalists from 29 countries. The images and reportage contributed by these brave photographers and citizens who covered the conflict and humanitarian catastrophe reveal not only the indiscriminate violence and displacement of millions of people but also the first-hand experiences of working in a war zone Published by FotoEvidence in September

“Ukraine: A War Crime – a book by photographers documenting the war’s first year“

I looked this up because Portuguese news was covering a gallery in Lisbon that showcases the photos in this book. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like this done before for any war except maybe the very old ones.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    1 year ago

    The bodies aren’t even cold and they’re selling “memorial books” talking about how evil Russia is and how good and wholesome Ukraine is. It’ll fit perfectly on every lib’s bookshelf next to their Harry Potter novels.

    It’s one thing for these fuckers to war profiteer directly, but to turn the war into such a spectacle that they sell books to libs in the west like this, to commercialize this war like this, I know they’ve been doing that the whole time, but this is just hitting me hard. It’s so intense they are literally selling the propaganda to libs, who eagerly grab it to stash alongside their Zelenskyy funko pop.

    I kind of want to just tap out of the world for a bit, take a break from it now. I’ll try to take solace in the fact that this sort of thing will be used as an example in future history books of how deeply ingrained the concept of “commercialism” was during the capitalist era and the students reading will be utterly perplexed by it.

    • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mlOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      It kind of reminds me of when they took doors from Ukraine and made a museum showcasing them. It was incredibly weird and, honestly, very fucked up that they would do that so early in this conflict. The war isn’t even over and they’re capitalizing off it.