2023 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year

Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike–

Photographer Evgeniy Maloletka – Associated Press—

09 MARCH, 2022

Iryna Kalinina (32), an injured pregnant woman, is carried from a maternity hospital that was damaged during a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine. Her baby, named Miron (after the word for ‘peace’) was stillborn, and half an hour later Iryna died as well.

Evgeniy Maloletka is a war photographer, journalist and filmmaker from Berdyansk, Ukraine.

Since 2014, Maloletka has been covering the war in Ukraine. He has also covered the Euromaidan Revolution, the protests in Belarus, the Nagorno-Karabakh war and the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.

Maloletka graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 2010. In 2009, he started working as a staff photographer for Ukrainian media, and went on to working as a freelancer, collaborating with the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel and others.

His work during the siege of Mariupol in 2022 has been recognized with the Knight International Journalism Award, the Visa d’or News Award and the Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie. He has also received awards from Italy, Germany, Norway and the United States.