Talking to StephanieDoing on cameraHorrific Destruction of GazaIn Ramallah, with FatehOutside KnessetAt Hostages SquareEmilio, Videographer
In Renk, South Sudan
South Sudan SunsetBorder crossing caravanCrammed BoatDry landNile BoatTrying to get cell signalSafe at last
Near Izyum, on Ukraine’s Eastern Front
Captured Russian T-80Abandoned command postBattle aftermathWatching the Russians from the frontFred heading back to the vanTank commander interviewUs on the T-80
Kharkiv, July 2022
Our team in KharkivCraterProud KharkivDaily Russian atrocityOasis of normal in Kharkiv, an open hipster cafeSteph and I outside city hall, where a missile attack killed dozens on the war’s first day
Lviv, Ukraine after Russia’s invasion
With Andrei ShepchenkoLviv VistaMurdered children memorialBorder handoverStreet sceneRefugeesLviv, Ukraine March 2022
Vilnius, Lithuania
FortressTalking to Dep For MinView from the hotelOur CBC teamSnowy night
Riga, Latvia’s Capital in the Snow
Welcoming NATOSoviet chic streetcarsHistoric ChurchA blustery daySnowy eleganceRiga Old TownA snowy day in Riga, Latvia
Outside Riga, Latvia. November 2021.
Conference of the Parties, COP26 in Glasgow
Huge Crowds, long waitsBobblehead JustinAirport welcomeSaving the planetAdrian cleans upThe venueA green COP
Reykjavik, Iceland October, 2021
Post work spa ..followed by an ocean dipPicture PerfectPresidents homeCathedralSteph and JFWaterfront monumentBleak but beautiful
Driving around Iceland, October 2021
Scotland, October 2021
Beaver BusinessDundee lookoutPretty PubSteph, JF and me
Dagestan and the Caucasus Mountains, April 2021
Dagestan has 200 abandoned villagesKubari Village Abandoned terraced fields near Gunib
Lake Baikal, Listvyanka. Irkutsk Region, Russia Feb 2021
Tundra machine, for the lakeLystvianka viewTourism boomMethane trapped in iceCrystal clear and a long way downDima on ice as clear as glassOur CBC Moscow team on Lake Baikal
Above the Arctic Circle, on Russia’s Kola Peninsula. Feb ’21
Arctic sunset.Nice view from Murmansk hilltopRoad through a snowy desertSnowmobiling Beautiful northern lights about 100 k from MurmanskMemorial to the Kursk tragedy in Murmansk.The beach near Teriberka, full of rocks shaped like “dinosaur eggs” Dog Sledding has become a major tourist draw in Russia’s Arctic
Moscow Protests. Feb 2021
Lots of rough and awful scenes on the streets of Moscow these past two weekends.
Landmarks. Winter 2020/2021
Red Square on a gloomy day is still extremely impressive.The GUM decked out in Christmas decorationsKuznetsky Most pedestrian area
Moscow. Fall 2020
We visited a Moscow COVID hospital and got sealed up tight.
Near the Volga. Fall 2020
Suzdal SceneWooden ChurchCabbage HarvestHard Living on the VolgaSuzdal’s Kremlin
Some scenes from a fall trip to Plyos and Suzdal, in Russia’s Ivanovo district on the Volga River.
Patriarchy, Moscow.
Patriarchy Prudy is my favourite Moscow neighbourhood. The view from my favourite corner and looking down the Garden Ring from Mayakovskaya Metro.
Chernobyl, Ukraine. Nov 2019
Our crew at Chernobyl
Hong Kong, August 2019/Feb 2020.
We made two trips to Hong Kong in five months, for the political protests and then as COVID began to spread around the world.
On Hong Kong’s harbourTear gassedGreat stand up locationCatching our breathWith Pascal, and a viewGlen Kugelstadt above the fray
Kazakhstan, June 2019.
After 6 months in space, Canadian David St Jacques returned to earth in central Kazakhstan and we went to meet him. We flew from Moscow to Karaganda, and then drove and drove and drove across an endless plain until we got to the landing zone. Then, the next morning he dropped out of the sky.
David St Jacques after a long flightPascal and ChrisBurnt capsuleChris and CorinneChris and TamaraAncient burial moundsPascal and AlexeyChrisSunsetTired after many filesEndlessly flat Part of a convoy
Stalingrad, Winter 2018.
On the 75th anniversary of the end of the biggest, most destructive, and arguably most consequential battle of the Second World War, we visited the old battlefields in and around modern day Volgograd.
Syria, Idlib Province, Sept 2019.
We went to Syria with Russia’s military in Sept 2019, and toured Idlib, Damascus and areas around Latakia.
Battle of Moscow Memorial.
Battle of Moscow MonumentVolokolamsk Kremlin
About 129 km north east of Moscow is where one of the fiercest battles of WW2 took place as the Nazis made a final, unsuccessful push to Moscow. These towering stone figures mark the place and moment near Volokolamsk.
