Arseniy Gerasymenko never imagined he was destined to cover conflicts. A fan of landscape and fashion photography, he was faced with a fait accompli when Russia invaded his country on 24 February 2022. Now, using a retro camera that he says once captured the Korean War in the 1950s, he documents his country's servicemen at the front.

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