Between Borders

• Prize
  Silver in Editorial/Conflict, Bronze in People/Children
• Jury Top 5 Selection

  Tomohide Ikeya The problems in Ukraine are heartbreaking all over the world. I am especially concerned about how the children are doing. Photos like these will be passed on to future generations and will be an important record.

• Photographer
  Alena Grom
• Photo Date
  Spring 2022

In January 2014, in April i was forced to leave her home and hometown due to military events in Donbass. Since 2017 i has lived in Bucha. As a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, I and my family became refugees for the second time. We fled to the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod. I came to the station and helped people who were brought by evacuation trains. There I photographed portraits of refugees, at the junction of borders, destinies and times.

Ukrainian artist and documentary photographer Alena Grom was born in Donetsk. In April 2014, she was forced to leave her hometown due to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Since 2017, she has lived in Bucha near Kyiv. After Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, Grom and her family became refugees twice but returned after Bucha was de-occupied. Her experiences deeply influence her work, which captures the resilience of life amid war, focusing on victims, migrants, and refugees, at the intersection of social reporting and conceptual photography.