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Photo of Kyiv destruction used on front and back cover
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Photo: a father waves goodbye to his daughter as she leaves to see refuge in Poland.
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Photo: A train packed with refugees in Lviv, near the Polish border.
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Photo: On March 12, two days after enlisting for military service and one day after passing his medical evaluation, Vladimir Ozarkov was granted an extra day before deploying so that he could marry his longtime girlfriend, Ulyana Kudia.
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Photo: The Vyshyvanyj family mourns the death of a second son, in a Russian attack on the Yavoriv military base near Lviv.
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Photo: Yerukhimovich Nadiya Panasivna could not flee Kyiv due to a broken hip. The 89-year-old, who recalled foraging for nettles during past times of hunger, was being cared for by her son Misha with assistance from a group of local volunteers called the Angels of Kyiv.
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Photo of Kyiv in context of cover
Thinking About Ukraine
Category
Photography > Photography: Series or Collection of Related Photographs
Description
Best of CASE District II Award
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Title of entry: Thinking About Ukraine
About this entry: In early March of 2022, Philadelphia-based photographer and University of Pennsylvania alumnus Mike Logsdon undertook a winding journey through Poland and western Ukraine to arrive in Kyiv. Inspired by his mother’s childhood experiences as a refugee in Australia and Morocco, he aimed to document the intimate stories of Ukrainians driven from their homes by the Russian invasion. “It’s easy to forget when we hear that 3 million Ukrainians have fled the country and millions more are internally displaced that each of these men, women, and children have a story,” he said. “Where statistics can strip away the humanity of this crisis, hopefully images and names can restore it, to a small degree.”
The images, taken during the first month of the war, accompanied the cover story for the May|Jun 2022 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette, Thinking About Ukraine.
In the search for images to accompany the feature, we were struck by the searing documentary photos of the war by Logsdon, and then discovered he was also a Penn alumnus. Under extremely difficult conditions, he graciously shared more of his images with us, in the hope that by showing how the war was affecting people's lives, it would make a difference. Not only did he contribute to world-wide awareness of the war, his documentation stands witness to the lives of the individuals in his photos, and their experience of the war.