Telex photojournalist István Huszti's photos from Ukraine win prestigious award

The jury awarded our colleague „for faithfully showing the destruction and pain caused by the war in Ukraine in his photos.” In 2022, special attention was given to works showing the various faces of war, the human reactions to war and to losing the freedom which up until recently, has been taken for granted.

On 24 February this year, Russia attacked neighboring Ukraine without an official declaration of war, and continues to refer to it as a special military operation. The Russian-Ukrainian war has been going on in some form for the past eight years, but since 24 February this year, the fighting intensified to a level which Europe hadn’t seen since the Second World War.

The conflict brought on an unprecedented refugee crisis and a huge increase in food and gas prices. 3,5 million Ukrainians have fled the country so far, with the number of civilian victims in the thousands, while the Russian propaganda machinery continues to deny attacks against civilian targets and attacking Ukraine.

Telex reporters have spent nearly 50 days in war-torn Ukraine, including in Kyiv and the surrounding region, in Odessa and the south, as well as in Kharkiv in the east, which was under Russian siege for weeks. During this time, they sent several photo reports, articles and videos to inform Hungarian readers about the war happening next door to us.