{"id":75282,"date":"2025-01-12T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?page_id=75282"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:30:58","slug":"pasha-kritchko","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/pasha-kritchko\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasha Kritchko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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Pasha Kritchko<\/strong> (born 1987) once worked as a part-time civil engineer and wedding photographer in Belarus. When the 2020 presidential election campaign began, he turned his life upside down and became a photojournalist. Since then he has used his camera and his voice to make the reality of his home country visible. His current work focuses on the political and social crisis triggered by the events of 2020 \u2013 from the fate of Belarusian volunteers fighting in Ukraine to the challenges faced by refugees in exile. Through his photography, Pasha aims to draw attention to the experiences and struggles of Belarusians at home and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Stories by Pasha:<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n
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Record of a disappearance: a Belarusian photographer in exile.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

He documented the protests, was persecuted and had to flee. His pictures tell of violence, of hope \u2013 and of holding on to memory.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Milk churn meets mixing desk: new beginnings in Poland\u2019s Podlasie.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Few places in Poland are as sparsely populated as Podlasie. While many people leave, some are building something of their own here \u2013 out of conviction and family ties.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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With bold promises and designer bottles, companies turn a basic foodstuff into a luxury good. An investigation.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Painstaking precision with deadly risk: a look at a profession in which every move has to be exactly right.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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360-degree video puts the audience right in the middle of the action. We show you how to produce immersive reportage \u2013 from the technology to the edit \u2013 and tell stories from every angle.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Student Tim Wagner accompanies the clearing of the Dannenr\u00f6der Forest.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Altenberg in Saxony looks idyllic \u2013 until you look more closely. A portrait of a young man standing up to the rise of the far right.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Why removing books from US school libraries means far more than politics to many young people.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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