Anastasia Taylor-Lind

PVF 2026 Conversations • Witnessing Each Other: Women, War, and Intimacy War photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind and director Paolina Stefani discuss “You Don’t Think It Will Happen to You”, a short film that follows Anastasia reporting the war in Ukraine. Through the frontline friendship between Anastasia and Ukrainian writer Alisa Sopova, the film honours intimacy and empathy amidst violence. Moving across multiple layers of authorship and distance, it becomes a story about women witnessing war, friendship forged under fire, and what it means to tell the story of the storytellers.

PVF 2026 Conversations • Witnessing Each Other: Women, War, and Intimacy

War photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind and director Paolina Stefani discuss “You Don’t Think It Will Happen to You”, a short film that follows Anastasia reporting the war in Ukraine. Through the frontline friendship between…

National Geographic named “In the Arms of Family” among its top photos of 2025. Shot by Anastasia Taylor Lind it shows Olha Grinik holding her nephew Tymofii whose father serves in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The family fled their home near Avdiivka captured by Russian forces.

Photo: @anastasiatl

In the Embrace of Family — a photograph by Anastasia Taylor-Lind, depicting young Tymofii with his aunt Olha — was named one of the best images of 2025 by National Geographic.

The boy’s shirt reads: “My dad wears the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

Donbas Before Russia’s Full-Scale War — UNITED24 Media - Bytes Europe Families in the East of Ukraine lived through a war long before Russia’s 2022 invasion. In 5km from the Frontline, a digital platform and short film,

Donbas Before Russia’s Full-Scale War — UNITED24 Media

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Families in the East of Ukraine lived through a war long before Russia’s 2022 invasion. In 5km from the Frontline, a digital platform and short film, British-Swedish photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind and …

Life Near Ukraine's Frontline in the Early Years of Russia's War, Captured by Anastasia Taylor-Lind Families in the East of Ukraine lived through a war long before Russia’s 2022 invasion. In 5km from the Frontline, a digital platform and short film, British-Swedish photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Donetsk native Alisa Sopova captured the everyday lives of...

Life Near Ukraine's Frontline in the Early Years of Russia's War, Captured by Anastasia Taylor-Lind
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Ukraine's frontline photographer: this is not just another assignment | Documentary YouTube video by The Guardian

Thanks for keeping Ukraine in our mind and hearts, @anastasiatl.bsky.social !

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People think they know what war is. Here’s what I learned in seven years on Ukraine’s frontline Movies and news reels show us the tanks, soldiers, explosions and tears. But beyond that is an integration of horror and the mundane, as those who have chosen to stay cling to as much normality as the...

People think they know what war is. Here’s what I learned in seven years on Ukraine’s frontline

by Alisa Sopova. Photographs by Anastasia Taylor Lind

Fantastic photos by Anastasia Taylor-Lind in this article in the Washington Post yesterday about refugees from Donbas. She’s been documenting Donbas for many years; I still have a postcard from the Welcome to Donbas project she did several years ago.

https://wapo.st/3U9jbcn

Going Beyond War’s Cliches - Nieman Reports 5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project, records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion

Sopova and her reporting partner, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, "wanted to shift the focus away from the spectacle of violence and onto what war looks like when it becomes part of the ordinary."

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Going Beyond War’s Cliches - Nieman Reports 5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project, records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion

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We’re looking forward to working with this amazing group of emerging Ukrainian photographers who have been selected for the first @5kfromthefrontline and @warchiveua in-person workshop in Kyiv this September.

This workshop is made possible with the support of @catchlight.io and @theudyh_kyiv

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A section of our latest #5kfromthefrontline reporting, supported by the National Geographic Society @insidenatgeo, the CatchLight Global Fellowship @catchlight.io and the Canon Female Photojournalist Grant @canonmeapro, is featured in the @washingtonpost.com

They were victims of a forgotten war in east Ukraine. Then came Russia’s full-scale invasion. Long before Russia’s 2022 invasion, war simmered in eastern Ukraine and these three families found a way to survive — until the fighting forced them to leave home.

Fantastic photos by @anastasiatl.bsky.social in this article in the Washington Post yesterday about refugees from Donbas. She’s been documenting Donbas for many years; I still have a postcard from the Welcome to Donbas project she did several years ago.

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Dear photography friends. We’re hosting a 2-day photo workshop in Kyiv this September for Ukrainian early-career photographers (35 and under) who want to work on long-term documentary projects about life during the war.
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Kirill Grinik (right), displaced with his family from Avdiivka, on the first day of school in the Poltava province, 2024.

War is closer than you think – see more at 5kfromthefrontline.com

#5kfromthefrontline is shortlisted for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for the second time, and we’re really looking forward to seeing our work included in the touring exhibition later this year.
 
War is closer than you think – see more at 5kfromthefrontline.com

Olga Grinik (center) with extended family at her new home in the Poltava province after being displaced from Avdiivka, 2024.
 
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Chemist Anna Baranova, from the Siverskyi Donets River Basin Department of Water Resources, collects samples from a pontoon bridge outside Izium. The samples were later analyzed for contamination at a laboratory in Slovyansk, 2023.
 
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New recruits from the 80th Airborne Brigade during medical training drills in the Bakhmut area, a few days before deployment to frontline positions, 2023.
 
War is closer than you think – see more at 5kfromthefrontline.com

Www.5kfromthefrontline.com project started as a hashtag on Instagram. There were times our only audience were our social media followers and we’re so grateful to them 💙

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