Alex Plaum"Unlike colleagues of a previous generation, Kochetova does not labour under the illusion that a photograph might change history, or stop a war. Instead, in everything she does, she is trying to bring those who see her work towards an intimacy with individuals, towards a human connection that goes straight to the heart and has little to do with maps of the frontline, statistics on losses, or armchair military analysis."
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/23/julia-kochetova-photographs-war-ukraine
‘This girl was braver than I was’: Julia Kochetova’s astonishing photographs of war in Ukraine
From children’s funerals to underground shelters to the frontline, Kochetova has captured the conflict with power and humanity for the Guardian. ‘I have the same scars as the people I photograph,’ she says ahead of a major show