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In June of 2022, Patrick Patterson arrived in Kyiv and installed himself in Ukraine for the next year. Patterson made a deliberate choice not to attach himself to the press corps but to work independently. This allowed him the freedom to choose the subject of his work and immerse himself in it to collect the stories behind his images. Patterson traveled widely across Ukraine, traversing the country from east to west, north to south, recording the effects of conflict in the many war-torn regions. His particular focus, however, has been the cities and villages along the eastern front, liberated in September-October of 2022 after a six-month Russian occupation. While many of his colleagues photographed battlefields, armor, and soldiers, Patterson focused on how war impacts ordinary people's lives, families, homes, and neighborhoods.

Patrick Patterson

Patrick Patterson has spent much of his career documenting human rights and conflict. His work is a reflection of how photography can influence change through photographic narratives and the importance of giving voice to those who are not heard. Each photograph is a document; evidence that someone or something has been seen.

Patterson’s work on undocumented migrants in the Midwest provides an opportunity for viewers to question their biases about people crossing the U.S. southern border. His work on Texas death row sheds light on wrongful convictions based on racial bias, and his recent work has taken him to Poland and Ukraine where he has documented one of the largest refugee crises in the world while exposing Russian war crimes.