Photojournalist Stefanie Glinksi's image of Julia and her two-year-old daughter, Tanja, was taken in 2022, at the Refugee Accommodation Centre in Basarabeasca, Moldova. Julia and her children were living in a small room with the few possessions they managed to escape Ukraine with. Julia's husband stayed behind to fight. Stefanie recalls Julia telling her, "My son keeps asking for his father and my daughters barely sleep. They want to be close to me all the time. The war has traumatised them; they are afraid." Taken on a Canon EOS R5 with a Canon RF 24-70mm F2.8L IS USM lens at 24mm, 1/100 sec, f/2.8 and ISO 640. © Stefanie Glinski
"I was in Afghanistan when the country was experiencing daily attacks," recalls Stefanie Glinski, a photographer and journalist who lived in the Central Asian country for four years, from 2018 to 2022. "There was a lot of violence, but people were also going about their daily lives. I wanted to capture this too."
Documenting stories like these has taken Stefanie all over the world. As well as photographing the events in Afghanistan, she has captured the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the effects of climate change in Somalia and Kenya. Born in Germany, Stefanie has moved a lot – living in Canada, the US and the UK, which is why she says her identity isn't rooted in where she came from. As well as her native German, Stefanie speaks English, French, Persian and Spanish – now she's learning Turkish, as she's currently based in Istanbul.