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A woman wearing blue stands in front of a chalkboard in a green classroom.
May 25, 2026 | A Completely Normal Day
Olena Mykhailivna Loboda, a mathematics teacher, teaches remotely from her empty classroom at School No. 2 in Chernihiv, Ukraine, in this image from the 2026 Giga Photo Award competition. Due to the ongoing war, adjusting to remote learning when an air-raid alert sounds has become the norm. "In general, I’m more interested in how people live through war than in how they die in it," photographer Antti Yrjönen told National Geographic. This is the fourth academic year of the war in Ukraine, and according to UNICEF, 4.6 million children in Ukraine face disruptions to education.
