'Diaries of War' traces two personal accounts — one from Ukraine, one from Russia
When it comes to critical events happening around the globe, sometimes individuals turn to the past — the sequence of occasions and forces that led to a particular moment — in an attempt to understand. And sometimes they aim to look closely and directly at what is unfolding as it occurs.
Both of these kinds of careful efforts — the intensive quest for truth by looking to the past, or by attending to the present — are urgently needed in times of crisis.
Self-described visual journalist Nora Krug undertakes the latter, helping her readers look more closely and deliberately into. In the book, Krug, who is German-born and now lives and works in the United States, follows the day-to-day lives of two people in the year after Russia's 2022 renewed attacks against Ukraine, a full-scale invasion that continues to this day.
