Gilles Peress, Twenty Years After the Siege of Sarajevo

Twenty years ago today, Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were killed by Serb snipers while at a peace rally in Sarajevo. Their deaths are considered by many…

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/04/farewell-to-bosnia-gilles-peress.html?currentPage=all

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.