The Photos That Define The War

People seem to need to divvy up things into separate categories and then debate about how to fit the messy work into those preconceived buckets. We have “art” photography and “street” and “commercial” and “journalism”, etc., etc., etc. Sometimes, when responding to an image, I cannot escape the feeling that several categories apply simultaneously. It’s like that with these war photos.

CNN Interactive recently released online, The Photos That Define The War In Ukraine, by Kyle Almond and Brett Roegiers. Before you click through to see this story, consider whether you are ready for bloody scenes of wartime violence. If you do view the images, it will take you some time to process what you have experienced.

Detail of image of mother and son resting in a train station at Lviv, Ukraine, by Dan Kitwood, from the CNN interactive story