Among the millions of images that tell the story of the world, there are those that mark history.
Photos that tell of the death of Kirill, only 18 months old, or the face of Marianna, which has become the symbol of the Ukrainian tragedy.
Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov are the authors.
For twenty days, they will be the only journalists able to testify to the crimes committed during the siege of Mariupol.
The Visa pour l'image festival chose to exhibit their photos, which almost cost them their lives.
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communication war
"We were attacked right after the bombing of the maternity ward when the photos were published. They knew our names and faces, we had to pass 15 Russian checkpoints to get out of Mariupol towards Zaporijjia, it was really stressful", says Evgeniy Maloletka , photographer reporter for the Associated Press (AP).
Documenting war crimes in Ukraine is exposing oneself to the wrath of the Kremlin.
Daniel Merehulak is one of the first to photograph the tortured and abandoned anonymous bodies in Boutcha.
The New York Times photographer did not expect that his testimony would also be challenged and manipulated by Russian propaganda.
"It's all true, a Hungarian reporter called me to ask me if what was happening in Boutcha was really the truth... I never could have imagined that the events we witnessed every day could not be called into question".
Upon their return from Ukraine, Burundi or Afghanistan, these photographer-reporters plunge in spite of themselves into another kind of war, that of communication.
But in this one, the Visa pour l'image festival pursues one and the same objective: to support them.
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