At 16, I believed the most important thing was the truth, so I decided to become a journalist. Initially, I aimed to be objective, but I soon realised that everything is inherently subjective. Journalism standards, such as timeliness, accuracy, and completeness, are essential, but war forces journalism to evolve, requiring new approaches to handle hundreds or even thousands of stories within drastically compressed timelines. The key is not to lose yourself in the process. Since 2014, my focus has been on ‘people at war’. I’m less interested in weapons or their destruction, and more in people — those who choose to defend. Also, children and their destroyed schools, the elderly being bombed at homes, doctors with unique experiences, soldiers returning from captivity, families grieving their losses, and displaced people. It’s hard to film a hero and, after a while, to return to these memories, because now you need to write an obituary about this person. It’s always emotionally difficult to film the wounded learning to live again.