The March 8 New York Times front page with Lynsey Addario’s photograph of those killed by Russian shelling.
Image: Lucas Bäuml
The New York Times’ Lynsey Addario chronicles how a Ukrainian family was killed by Russian shelling. Should the photo be shown? The surviving father has a clear opinion.
Et are images that are difficult to bear: The photo reporter Lynsey Addario from the “New York Times” captured with her camera how a Ukrainian family was killed by Russian shells while fleeing across the Irpin River to Kyiv. Equipped with rucksacks and a blue and a gray trolley case, the mother was trying to get to safety across the street with her two children when they were hit by the grenades.
Addario was twenty yards away behind a concrete wall when the shells went off. “When our security guy said we could run across the street now, I ran and saw this family on the ground,” Addario reported on Times Radio. “I saw these little boots and down jackets and of course I thought about my own children. And I thought it’s disrespectful to take a picture, but I have to take a picture of this. This is a war crime.” Her colleague, freelance journalist Andriy Dubchak, filmed the events.