Frozen in time: reviving 19th-century technique to photograph Ukraine war

Denis, from teams of workers from the Kharkiv region. For 300 hryvnias a day, they dismantle the rubble of the bombed-out school 134 on Shevcheno Street, Kharkiv, Ukraine, in June 2022. © Edward Kaprov

Seeking to document the Russian invasion of Ukraine, photographer Edward Kaprov turned to a technique used nearly 200 years ago during the Crimean War. His haunting black-and-white portraits have a timeless quality to them, suggesting that while technology has changed, war remains the same.

Kaprov’s exhibition “The Face of the Latest War” is at the Baron Gérard Art and History Museum in Bayeux until 12 November as part of the Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandy awards for war correspondents.