From far away, I hear the Cossacks’ reply


  • Photographer
    Emeric Lhuisset
  • Prize
    Official Selection
  • Jury Top 5 Selection

    Claudio Composti Photography renders in a cinematic manner the delirium of war which today is presented in the media as a movie

    David Clarke

    Wang Wenlan

    Miriam Leuchter I loved the humor behind these soldiers’ reenactment of a classic of Ukrainian art history.

    Jan Corey Helford

    Juan Curto Comradeship is the most powerful relationship during a war. It lives forever but it has a very high cost

  • Date of Photograph
    2023
  • Technical Info
    middle format camera, F11, ISO 100, 1/3 seconde, 23mm.

This photograph raises the question of colonialism and Russian imperialism, through the importance of both culture and historical narrative in this war. Here, on the banks of the Dnieper, Ukrainian soldiers reenact Repin's "letter to the Sultan" with in the center of the photograph the soldier who replied "Russian warship go fuck yourself" thereby drawing a parallel between past history and the contemporary history of Ukraine. Culture is a weapon in a vast battlefield and peace a permanent fight, let’s try not to forget it.

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