Eddy van Wessel, a Dutch freelance photographer, created a photo book titled "Ukraine," which includes nearly two hundred images captured during three years of conflict. He began documenting the war shortly after the Russian invasion began in February 2022. Van Wessel's photographic approach emphasizes personal emotion, as he focuses on moments that resonate with him rather than technical details. His images depict the stark reality of life amid war, highlighting the poignant relationship between life and death in conflict zones, particularly in devastated areas like Bakhmut.
A woman and her dog look out, with stoicism and dignity, from a car pockmarked by bullets; a wounded soldier teeters on the edge of collapse. Most of the photographs in 'Ukraine' were taken on the edges of violence; they are not gory and never prurient, but instead are laced with a sense of what van Wessel called 'the place where life and death touch each other.'
Eddy van Wessel's working method is intuitive and improvisational. He drives his own Škoda and later switched to a Subaru, shooting in black-and-white on a forty-year-old camera.
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