Lorenzo Meloni - Ukraine. Outskirts of Irpin. March 2022.

In 2017 while I was editing my work together with Abbas, he told me: "yet I feel that there are too many photos that are repeated often: rien ne ressemble à un groupe de civilians fleeing the city than another photo of civilians fleeing the city ". Today, more than ever, thinking about everything I have photographed over the years, I can only agree with him more. There is nothing that looks more like civilians running away from a war than other civilians running away from war. In the snow, in the desert, the sun or the rain, whether they are in Iraq or Syria or Ukraine or anywhere else. This is a picture just the same as many other pictures I have taken and yet I had to take it one more time...View all