Lviv, Ukraine. March 16, 2022. “Vika, a Ukrainian woman, learns how to handle a weapon and battle tactics at a civilian training centre in Lviv,” says photographer Laurel Chor.
“Over and over, we meet Ukrainians who tell us they want to contribute to the war somehow. There are now organisations running civilian training centres where regular people sign up to learn basic skills in first aid and weaponry. They seem to be mostly young men, but not all: some are women, some are older men, all eager to defend their homeland.”
Laurel Chor is an Emmy-nominated independent journalist, photographer, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer from Hong Kong. She has worked for VICE, HBO, SHOWTIME, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Getty, the Guardian, Reuters, National Geographic, AFP, the Los Angeles Times, and many more. She has covered social, political and environmental stories all over the world, ranging from the Rohingya refugee crisis, to deforestation in Paraguay, and the Russian-Ukraine war.
In 2020, she was named an honoree for the IWMF Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism award for her work during the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. Her coverage of the Hong Kong protests for VICE News was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast. In 2018, she produced a short documentary film on Chinese migrant workers for VICE News Tonight on HBO, which was awarded the Overseas Press Club of America’s David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award. Her writing, photography and video producing work has also been recognized with several Society of Publishers in Asia awards.
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