Chernov and Maloletka received French award for their photo-report from Mariupol

Ukrainian journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Yevhen Maloletka have become the laureates of the French Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for their coverage of Mariupol events. This was announced on the Award’s website.

Videographer and photojournalist of Associated Press Mstyslav Chernov won in the category Video Image and got second place in the category Television.

“Journalism will always be secondary to people suffering. Not everyone got lucky to move out of Mariupol, Yevhen and I did. The most important thing is that the original video- and photo-material was with us and we were able to share it with the world,” Mstyslav Chernov commented to Detektor Media.

Photojournalist Yevhen Maloletka, who had also been working in Mariupol since the beginning of the full-scale war, won in the category Photo.

“Alongside my colleagues, I discovered works of indisputable excellence. The level was so high it was difficult to decide between the reports!” Thomas Dworzak, the head of the jury, said.

To watch the pictures follow the link.

Mstyslav Chernov is an Associated Press journalist, photographer and war correspondent. Yevhen Maloletka is a freelance photojournalist.

They were covering the events in Mariupol besieged by russians. Yevhen Maloletka is an author of the pictures of Mariupol city hospital No. 3 being shelled. The journalists left Mariupol on March 15, joining the column that got out of the city when the humanitarian corridor was secured.

Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award is an annual prize awarded to war correspondents, founded in Normandy in 1994.

The award was launched as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy landings. It is awarded in Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award one of the first French cities to be liberated in the Second World War. The event focuses on journalism and reporting about a conflict or post-conflict situation, or about an event related to the defense of freedoms and democracy.

Apart from the awarding ceremony Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award offers a week of experience exchange, meetings and public debates.

It shall be reminded, that 3 Ukrainian journalists, Chernov and Maloletka among them, received the 2022 Knight International Journalism Award for their coverage of Mariupol siege.

Earlier, journalists Mstyslav Chernov and Yevgeniy Maloletka received the 2022 Georgy Gongadze Prize.

Photo: Facebook page of the Georgy Gongadze Prize