Photo Team plans to hear report from Ukraine, Feb. 19

National Press Club member Flavius Mihaies plans to talk about the impact of the war in Ukraine on the country's Orthodox church at the next meeting of the Club' s Photography Team on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at noon.

The meeting, open to all Club members,  takes place in the Reliable Source's Cosgrove Lounge and registration is required.  (Log in as an NPC member before registering.) The meeting begins with a self-funded lunch. The program begins at 12:45 pm and will be available at that time over Zoom. Registration is required for both in-person and remote participants.

Mihaies visited Ukraine last year to learn about the little-reported schism in the Ukraine Orthodox Church. His story in The American Conservative magazine, which appeared in August 2024, displayed a few of the 2,000 photos he took during the visit.  At the Photo Team meeting Mihaies plans to present more images from his visit and tell how he gained access for the photos.

Mihaies is an independent journalist and consultant on sustainable development, food security, foreign policy and conflict resolution, with a masters degree in international relations from University of Oxford. He discussed his visit to Ukraine and the article in an Update-1 podcast in Nov. 2024 . In 2019, he displayed photos from a Syrian refugee camp as part of the National Press Club's annual members exhibit.