Guillaume Herbaut — Ukraine at war. A tragedy in pictures
Exposition du 15 février au 29 mars 2024
Gare de Paris- Est, Paris
A requisitioned civilian says goodbye to his wife and son on the platform of the Odessa railway station.
A concussed soldier receives first aid on the Bakhmout front line.
A tank takes advantage of dusk to force its way through the Kremnina region.
A destroyed bridge, not far from Kharkiv, disappears under a layer of snow.
Photographing Ukraine since Russia’s brutal invasion of the country on 24 February 2022 means photographing a territory at war, where landscapes and lives have been thrown into chaos.
To mark the two-year anniversary of this conflict, which began ten years ago with the war in Donbass and the invasion of Crimea, SNCF Gares & Connexions has commissioned photographer Guillaume Herbaut to curate an original exhibition bringing together six Ukrainian and French photographers working on the ground.
Their images invite us onto the burning stage of a country stricken by tragedy, whose fate is being played out two thousand kilometres from our own soil – in other words, on our doorstep.
Guillaume Herbaut is the author of a book on the Ukraine that traces the origins of the conflict through twenty years of reporting. A tireless chronicler of a war he knows inside out, he delivers painful portraits of survivors, wounded, refugees and soldiers at the front. A renowned documentary photographer, he is the coordinator of this exhibition, which confronts us with the raw facts and reminds us of the testimonial power of photography.
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