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Mark Neville

Mark Neville

British photographer

Sep 10, 2026

17:39
Explain a little bit more about what's in the pictures.
17:44
Well, to give you a bit more context to that, when the full scale invasion happened, I was with my wife in Kiev and along with millions of others, we crossed the border on foot to Poland.
17:57
But I really couldn't stay away.
17:59
Every part of me was telling me that I had to return to help Ukraine the best way I knew how.
18:04
And that meant weaponizing my practice as an artist and extending it in the strongest way I could think of.
18:12
So it was trying to create a charity that combined humanitarian aid deliveries with my work as a photographer.
18:19
So I got back to Kiev days later in an aid van.
20:38
And that must be quite difficult to document.
20:13
Tell us briefly what this means for you now to open this exhibit.
20:19
It's extremely emotional.
20:21
I mean, I've been living along with Andriy in Ukraine for the past five years and dealing with the impact of these now daily explosions.
20:33
And it's very strange, but your nervous system actually becomes used to it.
20:41
So in a weird way, I have an advantage over people in the West who I'm sure the war is going to come to the West in a more direct way.
20:49
I'm very sad to say, but I think it will.
20:51
And you'll have to get used to war in this sense as well, I think, as Ukrainians are doing.
25:15
Tell us what happened next Mark.
21:36
No, they didn't.
21:37
No, I felt hurt, too, because they didn't believe my story about your cancer.
21:42
I was really hurt by that, but I didn't know that that was bullshit, too.
21:46
22 years I've been being spoon-fed all this crap from you, and I don't know what, which end is up and which end is down.
21:54
Do you know how that feels? You're like...
21:58
Uh, it's, it's, it's just...
22:01
It, it's so unnecessary.

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I try and I try and I try to talk to her.

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