Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstislav Chernov/Georgy Gongadze Award
Georgy Gongadze's birthday and Press Freedom Day announced the winners of the Georgy Gongadze Prize. They were photographers Mstislav Chernov and Evgeniya Maloletka.
This was reported on May 21 on the page of the award. Chernov and Maloletka were in the besieged Mariupol and showed the world the atrocities committed by the Russians.
All the journalists left Mariupol, but the photographers decided to stay there.
“We made a decision even before the war to come to Mariupol and stay there until the moment when we can be. This is an important decision for our work and Ukraine,” Chernov said.
“If we had left, the Ukrainians would not have seen much. We experienced everything together with the Mariupol residents,” Maloletka added.
Award ceremony: watch the video
Who else was in the final
Also finalists were the editor of Evropeyskaya Pravda, Sergei Sidorenko, and the editor-in-chief of Public Radio, Tatyana Troshchinskaya. In addition, for the first time in the history of the Georgy Gongadze Prize, a Special Distinction was introduced. She was posthumously awarded photojournalist Max Levin “for outstanding contribution to the development of Ukrainian photography, dedication to the profession and courage.” His mother was at the award ceremony.
Help. The Georgy Gongadze Prize was created by the Ukrainian PEN together with the Association of Alumni of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and the Ukrainian Pravda publication.
What is known about Max Levin
Levin was a journalist and documentary photographer. He worked in the war zone in the Kyiv region. While working, Levin was deliberately shot twice by a Russian invader.
The journalist was 40 years old. Levin left a family – four minor sons, a wife and elderly parents. His photos were published by the following media: BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, UNIAN, Public, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Breaking news Poland, EU AGENDA, Vatican news.
Most of the projects Max were associated with Russian aggression against Ukraine. In 2015, he received an award from Petro Poroshenko – the Order of Merit, III degree.
