emile ducke
@EmileDucke
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documentary photographer, @nytimes contributor
Joined October 2017
Under Fire and Understaffed: The Fight to Save Ukraine’s Wounded Our dispatch with Carlotta Gall and Oleksandr Chubko from the Zaporizhzhia region near the front line of the counteroffensive https://t.co/y9mWtwn4Bg
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Positioned close to the front lines, temporary medical posts are a critical lifeline for the constant inflow of soldiers hurt in the counteroffensive.
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Where Asia Meets Europe, Allies Become Rivals in a Tangle of Interests By @antontroian with images from @EmileDucke
https://t.co/GWiZweKI5x
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In the volatile Caucasus region, Russia and Iran, often seen as united in their aims, are vying to secure trade routes and influence. That leaves Western countries facing an unusual dilemma.
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“It’s not the Germans who have attacked us?” The oldest Ukrainians whose towns have been bombarded and overrun by Russia’s invasion have memories of similar miseries at the hands of Nazi Germany in World War II. Our story with Evelina Riabenko https://t.co/TEeXfzuwt4
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The oldest Ukrainians whose towns have been bombarded and overrun by Russia’s invasion have memories of similar miseries at the hands of Nazi Germany in World War II.
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When Home Is Now the Front Line w/ Oleksandr Naselenko & @Tmgneff
https://t.co/45RUELtaO4
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As war beat a path through southern and eastern Ukraine, most of the population fled. But other residents have hunkered down, unable — or unwilling — to leave.
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Surviving Winter in a Decimated Ukrainian Village w/ @Tmgneff
https://t.co/EaJZkF0XaS
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Winter in Ukraine’s eastern steppe brings an inescapable cold. The wind blowing through damaged homes, the shattered windows, the chill in your bones — it feels as if it will be permanent.
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Our dispatch from Kherson with @Tmgneff and Oleksandr Naselenko https://t.co/4WGxGO8weX
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Since Russian troops were pushed out of the city of Kherson, they have bombed it relentlessly. Closely held river operations could change that.
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Russian Forces Left This City a Year Ago. The Scars Remain. Our dispatch from Izium, with words by @VALERIEinNYT and Dzvinka Pinchuk. https://t.co/MpOYEcCbRw
nytimes.com
In Izium, in eastern Ukraine, the buildings are in ruins and services are spotty. Barely recovered, its residents worry that more mayhem may lie ahead.
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How do you fight the cold? A photo essay on the cold of January gripping people in northeastern Ukraine, who must deal with this quiet, insidious enemy in towns with damaged infrastructure. @EmileDucke @MarichkaVareni1
https://t.co/xxhqS9t5QJ
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“My children left, but I don’t want to. I warm myself with an electric heater when there is power,” Alyona Kovalyova said.
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In this week’s @NewYorker, @yaffaesque’s story with my photographs about the thorny and complicated question of wartime collaborators https://t.co/iYHj36lg0T
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Kharkiv Tried to Return to Normal. Russian Shelling Wouldn’t Let It: 'Our main task now is to survive the winter'. Our story from Ukraine's second biggest city in the twilight of war. Photos by @EmileDucke
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Ukraine repelled the effort to capture its second-largest city, but the artillery attacks did not stop. Many residents who left have returned but fear that a new offensive is imminent.
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‘It’s Like Parallel Realities’: Rituals of Life and Death Blur in a Vibrant Ukrainian City Our dispatch with @meganspecia
https://t.co/AwCqMsYVc5
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In Lviv, babies are born in a hospital just steps away from the military cemetery where Ukraine’s young soldiers are laid to rest.
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“But with global warming, the wheel of fortune turned…” In case you missed this great @AndrewKramerNYT & @EmileDucke piece from Chukotka:
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Global warming may pose grave dangers around the world, but as one tiny Russian town on the Arctic Ocean shows, it can also be a ticket to prosperity.
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Glimpses of a world engulfed in smoke, for @NatGeo from Siberia. With words by Madeleine Stone. Editing by @AnneFarrar
https://t.co/XjXZMYmY9w
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The fires have released roughly as much carbon as Germany does in a year and sent plumes of smoke spilling over the North Pole.
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“Inviting journalists to come look at these modernized, reinvigorated Cold War sites is all about signaling.” A deep dive by @AndrewKramerNYT on his recent trip to a Russian Arctic military base, with great photos by @DuckeEmile
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Though the Russian military has little in common with liberal Western politicians or environmental groups like Greenpeace, it is taking ice melt in the Far North seriously.
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Together with @DuckeEmile, we went to Ukhta to meet Yevgeniya Shasheva, a Gulag victim trying to return to Moscow, her hometown. Her current turn in line to get an apartment there is 54,846. Average waiting time is 20 years. On April 2nd, she'll turn 71.
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Many victims of Stalin’s gulag are still unable to return to their families’ hometowns. Despite a court order, Moscow isn’t helping them.
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In his project ‘Diagnosis’ @DuckeEmile, #WPPh6x6 talent, takes us on board of the Saint Lukas train, a medical train that travels to remote towns in central & eastern Russia to provide residents with specialized medical treatments. See more, on Witness: https://t.co/08pkGzLXvV
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I travelled along Russia's Kolyma Highway, where the harsh climate echoes its difficult history. Our story with Andrew Higgins: https://t.co/Gd3HZZ4Mox
nytimes.com
The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today.
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This photo essay by @DuckeEmile is like traveling back in time. Balm for the soul
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Once a vast prison ground for political exiles, the banks of the Ket River are now home to a range of solitary settlements.
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