Safety tips for war photographers in Ukraine.
Photographer Timothy Fadek, on assignment for CNN on a frontline position in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, 2022.“Obviously, having some kind of previous war experience would be ideal because this is a completely heightened level of warfare,” says the photojournalist. “This is not[a series of pro-democracy uprisings that enveloped several predominantly Muslim countries, including Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Bahrain].
In the initial weeks of the war, nearly a dozen journalists from non-Ukrainian and Ukrainian sources were killed because they entered a fighting situation they were unfamiliar with. They did not know where the frontline was, didn’t understand the ebb and the flow of the combatants, and found themselves “directly in the middle” of the action.
“You create a group so it’ll be myself, several members of the security team, my editor, maybe several editors, and we would communicate via text like we would text each other on WhatsApp. But then there is a function that allows you to share the live location, and you have three options: 15 minutes, one hour, and eight hours. At the end of the eight-hour period, you simply refresh, and you send another link or permissions to your group members so that they can follow your location.
For Fadek to travel anywhere, it had to be approved in advance by the CNN security team, which had more than ten people working in Kyiv, Lviv, and cities to the east. They had to investigate whether the location was safe enough and do a risk assessment of the route he would take. Once that was approved, he was allowed to go there alone without a security person in the back seat.
Children shelter inside a train at a metro station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 28, 2022. Most residents have been living in the metro stations for over a month, some since the war began on February 24th. The city comes under attack daily from missile and artillery barrages. Photograph by Timothy FadekYou must travel with somebody and at least have a line-of-sight contact, Fadek says. It is not recommended to travel alone.
The rabies vaccine is usually given on the day of the rabies exposure, and then a dose of the vaccine is given again on days 3, 7, and 14. Rabies is a viral infection that tends always to be fatal once it takes hold of your central nervous system.In addition to being up to date with COVID vaccinations, journalists should make sure they have all other necessary shots to avoid contracting diseases on the field.
“I hung out in my hotel for a couple of days until I could test negative, and then I hopped on a plane back home to New York.“Here are the top five things in my kit,” says the photojournalist. “I have blunt scissors, gauze, tape, four tourniquets. I have expandable tape and plastic material that you peel off if you have an abdomen wound. It is a rectangle of 4×5 inches that covers the wound and fits over a large area of the abdomen if you cannot stop the bleeding.
“When you’re in a country where electricity might turn off, or the cleanliness of the water is suspect, it’s very easy to be poisoned … from dirty water, fruits and vegetables washed in dirty water, and meat or poultry or fish that has not been refrigerated properly. Getting sick is very, very easy. Every journalist I know carries Cipro, a very common prophylaxis drug.
“If I did find myself in a situation where everything was shut down, I might have to resort to boiling the water because I do not carry iodine pills. But I’ve never encountered that problem. I’ve always had access to bottled water.” Olga, 22, gave birth to two sons yesterday in the underground shelter of a maternity hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3. 2022. Photograph by Timothy Fadek
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