Photography as Testimony: Insecurities, “Bareness” of Life, and Resilience during the War in Ukraine
Journal: Visual Anthropology
Year: 2023

AbstractThis article is written on the basis of the visual material collected during field trips to Ukraine in 2014, 2016, 2017 and in February–March 2022. The analysis is built on three concepts that have been meaningfully re-signified through war photography. One is human (in)security with its strong biopolitical connotations earlier described in the academic literature as a particular regime of care-taking in times of military conflicts. The second biopolitical concept that resonates in war p