Epiphany on a Kosovo Rooftop – NYTimes.com

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Epiphany on a Kosovo Rooftop

Fred R. Conrad may be best known for his exquisite portraits, but an assignment in Kosovo taught him the value of watching and waiting for the story to come to him.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/epiphany-on-a-kosovo-rooftop/

Kathy Ryan, the director of photography for The New York Times Magazine, sent me to Kosovo in June of 1999 to take a panoramic picture of a burned-out street that would be published over four pages. There was one proviso: Whatever ruins I decided to photograph had to reveal the horrors that had been inflicted upon its occupants.