Gilles Peress, Twenty Years After Bosnia

Gilles Peress, who has worked with The New Yorker on many occasions, photographed in Bosnia from March to September of 1993. “I knew from the beginning that I could not explain all that was happening in Bosnia—the historical intricacies, the weight of blood,” Peress writes in his book “Farewell To Bosnia.” “I set out only to provide a visual continuum of experience, of existence.” Here’s a selection of his photographs from Bosnia.