Fortitude, desperation and resolve in a city under attack.

 

Text:    by C.J. Chivers, specially for NYT Magazine.

 

In the weeks after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv, the capital, became a city transformed. Much of its population evacuated. New defense units gathered and took up arms. Impromptu social support — field kitchens, aid stations, bomb shelters, evacuation convoys — sprouted into functional shapes. The city endured intermittent bombardment throughout. This altered streetscape became the uneasy milieu of Alexander Chekmenev, a Ukrainian documentary and portrait photographer who since the 1990s has visually chronicled his country’s post-Soviet life.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/magazine/ukraine-war-kyiv.html