Verdun Memorial in France to host Ukraine war photograph exhibition by Anastasia Taylor-Lind
The Verdun Memorial in France will host an exhibition Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline by Anastasia Taylor-Lind, a leading British-Swedish photojournalist who has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2014.
The modern museum complex Verdun Memorial, opened on the site of the largest battle of the First World War – the Battle of Verdun – will host an exhibition of photographs Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontlines, dedicated to the largest war in the center of Europe since World War II. Its author is war correspondent Anastasia Taylor-Lind, who has been photographing events in Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity and the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2014, which escalated into a full-scale invasion in February 2022. Her images show civilians in eastern Ukraine and the soldiers on the front lines.
In April 2024, Anastasia Taylor-Lind received the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award for her work in Ukraine.
“I have been reporting on the impact of violence on the daily lives of ordinary people in Ukraine since 2014,” said Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
“I am grateful to the Verdun Memorial for giving these photographs a place where they can reach a wide audience far from the war. I hope they can show how Ukrainians continue to live, adapt, and build a future despite the violence and instability.”
“Bringing the experience of the war in Ukraine to life at the Verdun Memorial in the center of the battlefield is a sensitive narrative in the story between the past and the present,” said Nicolas Barrett, director of the museum.
The exhibition Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline will run from June 20 to Nov. 30, 2024.
The Verdun Memorial - Battlefield is a cultural institution that brings together three main sites on the Battle of Verdun. This is the Verdun Memorial itself, a modern museum dedicated to the most significant battle of the First World War. Fort Douaumont is the largest structure of the Verdun fortifications. As well as Fort Vaux, which contains the “scars” of a terrible siege and heroic resistance.
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