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Iconic Mariupol Maternity Photograph Wins World Press Photo Award

It was one of the most striking photographs since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a tragic postscript. A year later, it has been chosen as World Press Photo of the Year award.

Iconic Mariupol Maternity Photograph Wins World Press Photo Award

A detail of the photograph

Laure Gautherin and Laura Valentina Cortés Sierra

This article was updated at 12:15 p.m. local time on April 21, 2023

It was 16 days after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, when a Russian air raid struck a maternity hospital in the southern city of Mariupol, a shocking attack that international organizations would later determine was a war crime.

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Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka was on the scene, capturing a powerful image of one of the wounded pregnant mothers-to-be. On Thursday, the image was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year prize.

In March 2022, the killing of civilians was multiplying across the country, notably in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Maloletka, a veteran Ukrainian photographer, was one of the very few documenting events in the city at that time.

On March 9, after the Russian air raid struck the Mariupol maternity hospital ward, the AP photographer was on the scene, capturing a series of horrific images, including one showing a wounded pregnant woman being carried by emergency workers through the shattered grounds of the hospital.



The 32-year-old woman named Iryna Kalinina would later die of her injuries, half an hour after giving birth to her stillborn son, named Miron, after the Ukrainian word for peace.

The World Press Photo jury declared that this image “captures the absurdity and horror of war” and that “it is an accurate representation of the year's events and evidence of the war crimes being committed against Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces.”

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Do We Need Our Parents When We Grow Up? Doubts Of A Young Father

As his son grows older, Argentine journalist Ignacio Pereyra wonders when a father is no longer necessary.

Do We Need Our Parents When We Grow Up? Doubts Of A Young Father

"Is it true that when I am older I won’t need a papá?," asked the author's son.

Ignacio Pereyra

It’s 2am, on a Wednesday. I am trying to write about anything but Lorenzo (my eldest son), who at four years old is one of the exclusive protagonists of this newsletter.

You see, I have a whole folder full of drafts — all written and ready to go, but not yet published. There’s 30 of them, alternatively titled: “Women who take on tasks because they think they can do them better than men”; “As a father, you’ll always be doing something wrong”; “Friendship between men”; “Impressing everyone”; “Wanderlust, or the crisis of monogamy”, “We do it like this because daddy say so”.

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