{"id":4585,"date":"2025-04-01T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/world-press-photo-apologizes-for-combining-photos-of-pro-russian-militant-ukrainian-child-in-visual-pair\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:03:40","slug":"world-press-photo-apologizes-for-combining-photos-of-pro-russian-militant-ukrainian-child-in-visual-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/world-press-photo-apologizes-for-combining-photos-of-pro-russian-militant-ukrainian-child-in-visual-pair\/","title":{"rendered":"World Press Photo apologizes for combining photos of pro-Russian militant, Ukrainian child in &#8216;visual pair&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/wpp-exhibition2025-DNK-MarteenNauw.jpg\" alt=\"World Press Photo apologizes for combining photos of pro-Russian militant, Ukrainian child in 'visual pair'\"><\/p>\n<p>The jury of the World Press Photo contest apologized for pairing photos of a wounded pro-Russian militant from the Donetsk Oblast with a Ukrainian girl suffering panic attacks due to war, Detector Media reported on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>German journalist Nanna Heitmann received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrainianphotographers.com\/en\/uni-story\/world-press-photo-2025-announces-regional-winners\">World Press Photo 2025 award<\/a> for her photo titled &#8220;Underground Field Hospital,&#8221; which depicts the wounded militant in the Russian-occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/donetsk-oblast\/\">Donetsk Oblast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another winner is a photo by German correspondent Florian Bachmeier, who showed a 6-year-old girl, Angelina, lying in her home in Borshchivka in <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/kharkiv-oblast\/\">Kharkiv Oblast<\/a>, suffering from panic attacks after fleeing Russian shelling.<\/p>\n<p>The World Press Photo combined the two photos on their website, calling the two images a &#8220;visual pair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/detector.media\/infospace\/article\/239589\/2025-03-31-zhuri-world-press-photo-pereprosylo-za-poiednannya-foto-ukrainskoi-divchynky-ta-okupanta-ale-zalyshyt-premiyu-fotografu-tass\/\">Detector Media<\/a>&#8216;s request, the jury responded by emphasizing that there is &#8220;an obvious difference between a <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukrainian-children\/\">child<\/a> suffering from the consequences of <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/war\/\">war<\/a> and the torment of a soldier of the occupying forces who causes this suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The World Press Photo\u2019s decision to create a &#8220;tandem&#8221; of two photos depicting a Ukrainian child traumatized by war and a soldier of Russian invading army is pathetic. <\/p>\n<p>This is the worst example of a false moral equivalence between an aggressor and one who defends against\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qHLpa2mJNq\">pic.twitter.com\/qHLpa2mJNq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Heorhii Tykhyi (@SpoxUkraineMFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpoxUkraineMFA\/status\/1905646045771493613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The World Press Photo divided the images on its website as of April 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to the jury, pairing the two photos suggests that they should be &#8220;viewed and understood only in dialogue,&#8221; which &#8220;creates an overly simplistic and false equivalence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The World Press Photo also promised to improve the rules and procedures for dealing with applications from photographers working for state institutions, consult with photographers working in Georgia, Ukraine, and countries with repressive regimes, and try to &#8220;do good work in their difficult situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The World Press Photo is an annual contest for professional photographers in photojournalism and documentary photography. An international independent jury selects the best pieces in global and regional nominations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Ukrainian photojournalist <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/julia-kochetova-wpp\/\">Julia Kochetova<\/a> was announced as one of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest winners for her multidisciplinary project &#8220;War Is Personal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/what-russia-really-wants-from-the-black-sea-ceasefire-sanctions-deal\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">What Russia really wants from the Black Sea ceasefire deal<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">With much fanfare, the U.S. on March 25 announced it had brokered an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to \u201celiminate the use of force\u201d in the Black Sea after two days of talks in Saudi Arabia. But while Kyiv said it was ready to abide by it straight away,<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"World Press Photo apologizes for combining photos of pro-Russian militant, Ukrainian child in 'visual pair'\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Dominic Culverwell<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1805612446-2.jpg\" alt=\"World Press Photo apologizes for combining photos of pro-Russian militant, Ukrainian child in 'visual pair'\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/world-press-photo-apologizes-for-combining-photos-of-pro-russian-militant-ukrainian-child-in-visual-pair\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury of the World Press Photo contest apologized for pairing photos of a wounded pro-Russian militant from the Donetsk Oblast with a Ukrainian girl suffering panic attacks due to war, Detector Media reported on March 31. 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