Photojournalist who covered many conflicts and made Sarajevo his home after documenting the siege of the city
As was the case for many of the journalists of his generation who covered the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the life and career of the award-winning photographer Paul Lowe was defined by the conflict.
In 1992 he travelled to Sarajevo to document the horror in a city besieged by Bosnian Serb forces whose population was cut off from the world, being pounded with artillery and picked off by snipers. He fell in love with the place, the people and his future wife, and never really left.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/28/paul-lowe-obituary
Author : Kim Willsher
Publish date : 2024-10-28 18:05:42
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