“The problem as a photographer is trying to document this tastefully,” she said. “There’s a lot of pictures I don’t even transmit because they are too gruesome.” Still, Guzy said, you “can’t sugarcoat reality.”

April 8, 2022, Bucha, Ukraine: investigators begin the grim work of pulling bodies from a mass grave and assessing evidence of war crimes as families gather searching for missing loved ones in Bucha, Ukraine on April 8, 2022. Wreckage of war and bodies littered the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported. (Credit Image: © Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire)

April 9, 2022, Bucha, Ukraine: Body bags of people recovered from a mass grave and throughout the town are lined up at a cemetery for transport to the morgue as investigators begin the grim task of assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine on April 9, 2022. Wreckage of war and bodies littered the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported. (Credit Image: © Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire)
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