British photographers’ group Editorial Photographers UK is raising money for the families of a Georgian photographer and reporter who were both killed in the Georgian conflict.

Photographer Sasha Klimchuk, 30, and his reporter friend Giga Chikhladze, 27, promised if one of them died the other would support their family, but both were killed in South Ossetia on 9 August this year.

Mark Pinder, freelance photographer and a member of the EPUK, was aware of the pact and highlighted the plight of the families. He became friends with Klimchuk in 2005 when he was working in the region and kept in touch.