Splinters of broken silence

PhotographerValery Melnikov
PrizeGold in Press / War
Entry Description

Syria continues to sink in blood of own people, to collapse from explosions and attacks. Civil war goes four years. According to official data the price is 130000 deceased and about 4000 missing. The future of Syria and its citzens is still covered with a thick smoke of the next projectile.

About Photographer

He has dedicated himself to documenting the political and social life of societies in conflict. Valery’s professional biography includes coverage of Chechen war, conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia, Lebanese war in 2006, uprising of Mali Republic, Syrian civil war. In 2014, Valery began documenting war in Eastern Ukraine. This work continues in his current ongoing project, Black days of Ukraine, about ordinary civil people who became the participants of the military confrontation against their will.