How can Ukrainian photographers get involved with Getty Images? What does the global market buy most often? Which photos are worth showing, and which are not?We discussed all this in a conversation with representatives of Global Images Ukraine, which has been Getty Images' official partner in Ukraine for over 11 years. Director Oksana Antonova, Commercial Director Kirill Matvienko, and Senior Editor Tetiana Dovgal discussed the realities of working with visual content during wartime and the opportunities for Ukrainian photographers.

Oleg Pereverzev has been working as a photographer for almost twenty years. He has shot reports about extraordinary people and remarkable places in Ukraine, movie backstage scenes, studio portraits, and, in recent years, war. Oleg explained why a roll of film from the Svit film factory gave him freedom, why he was sometimes more interested in the technique of photography than the result, and why square-framed photographs of the world around him disappear after a day.

Volodymyr Petrov is a documentary photographer and photojournalist, one of the co-founders of the community “Ukrainian Documentary Photography”. Today, he serves as a senior communications officer in the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. His photos are a deep immersion in the story of the hero and an attempt to understand himself, a sincere account of events and a search for the truth.

The beginning of July 2025 in Ukraine marked a new stage of escalation. On the night of July 3-4, Russia launched the most powerful combined strike since the start of its full-scale invasion. Kyiv and at least five other regions of the country were attacked by drones and missiles. Overall, the week from June 30 to July 4 was one of the most intense: more than 500 strikes, dozens of wounded, destroyed buildings, fires, and human casualties.

On July 4, 2022, the Ukrainian military installed the state flag on Zmiiny. This was the final stage of a complex operation to liberate the island by Ukrainian forces. On June 30, the Russian garrison left Zmiiny under the pressure of Ukrainian attacks.

Spring 2014. Ukraine has not yet recovered from the deaths on the Maidan and the annexation of Crimea, as Russia has already swung its south and east. In April, she provoked Kharkiv, Odessa, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This is how the war began, which continues today — in 2025. War without declaration, but already with weapons in hand. Russia boldly and openly entered the Donbas — under the guise of “referendums”, “people's republics” and “militias”. In some cities, she was repulsed — Kharkiv and Odessa survived. Others were unable to contain the invasion. Donetsk and part of the region were captured. Documentary photographer Anatoly Stepanov was at the center of events. He saw with his own eyes how the scenario of a hybrid invasion unfolded: rallies, seizure of administrative buildings, the appearance of armed “volunteers” from Russia, the first killed. In April 2014, he filmed the funeral of a pro-Ukrainian deputy in Horlivka, stood near the captured district department in Slavyansk, recorded the resistance in Donetsk, Mariupol and the aftermath of the tragedy in Odessa on the morning of May 3 near the burned Trade Union House.