Two photos taken by the Kyiv Post staff photographer Anastasia Vlasova made it to the Time magazine selection of the best 100 photos of the year, published on Dec. 7.
The photos were not ranked. Vlasova’s photos are featured under numbers 12 and 13.
One of them shows a sleeping room in the kindergarten in Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, after it was shelled. The glass shatters and splinters of the broken windows cover the small, made-up beds. The photo was taken on Jan. 22. The children were evacuated before the shelling.
The second photo was taken on Feb. 17 in Mironovka, a village near Debaltseve. It pictures Yulia Novomlynets, 18, standing in a line to get humanitarian aid in a bomb shelter. Her right eye is covered with a bandage. Unknown men hit her in an eye with a butt of a rifle.
Yulia Novomlynets, 18, waits in a line to get humanitarian aid in Mironovka, a village near Debaltseve in Donetsk Oblast, on Feb. 17. (Anastasia Vlasova)
Vlasova has been a staff photographer in the Kyiv Post since 2013. She is also a stringer at the European Pressphoto Agency in Kyiv.
Vlasova has been covering various aspects of the war in eastern Ukraine since the very first days of the conflict. She has also covered the EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
She is a winner of several awards in photojournalism, including Gold for College Photographer of the Year’s Spot News category and the Bronze at Picture of the Year International’s Spot News category, and Honorable Mention 2015 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Besides Kyiv Post, her photos were published in the New York Times, Time, The Guardian, and other Western publications.
Vlasova has a Master’s Degree in Journalism from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is a 2015 Magnum Foundation Human Rights and Photography Fellow at NYU.
