Ukraine War Photographer: ‘People Don’t Believe the Pictures are Real’

by | Feb 15, 2023 | PetaPixel

Featured image: Chris McGrath

Cross-posted from petapixel.com [by Matt Growcoot]

A Getty Images photographer working in Ukraine says he is “infuriated” when people don’t believe his photos are real.

In an interview with British news outlet inews, Chris McGrath says he takes “significant risk to take people where they can’t go.”

“I have had a lot of pushback coming from Russian accounts,” he tells inews. “Sometimes people don’t believe that the pictures are real. That infuriates me, 100 percent. I saw what was happening in front of me.”

Documenting History

McGrath’s Instagram page serves as a series of short stories that spotlight the terrible war that’s taken place since Russia invaded Ukraine country almost a year ago.

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