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Ex-Yugoslavia
Ex-Yugoslavia Serbia and Kosovo Independence, Feb.-March. 2008
Serbia is a deeply divided country. Some Serbs cling to it’s past history while others long to forward into modern Europe. Its economy and international reputation have been ruined by the successive civil wars in the break up of Yugoslavia. Serbia's current leaders, recently re-elected with a thin margin, are pro-western.


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Iraq
Iraq These photographs were taken during the first six weeks of the US invasion of Iraq.


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Israel
Israel As the number of people killed during this new Intifada rose, a disturbing trend appeared: almost a third of the palestinians killed were young teenagers or children. The palestinians claimed that the IDF were deliberately targeting children. The Israelis charged that the Palestinian Authority was clinically using children as cannon fodder to turn world opinion against israel.

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Kosovo
Kosovo I began covering the ebb and flow of conflict and movements of people in the Balkans in 1995. I knew very little about the area and it's history, But it seemed so strange that there should be war in Europe in this decade, that I felt compelled to go. Often while working in the Balkans it seemed as if I had stepped into a scene from WWII and that not only the surroundings, but even the people and their way of being was from another era.

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Congo
Congo These photographs are of the Hutu refugees that fled fighting in their camps near the Rwandan border in late 1996 and early 1997, and the international effort to repatriate them.

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