Category: Civil Wars

Rows of human skulls, stacked behind glass inside a memorial stupa, confront visitors with the scale of violence remembered at Choeung Ek in Phnom Penh. In the foreground, two people in white pause in quiet attention, their faces turned toward the shelves as if searching for meaning among the remains. A wreath of flowers below…

Street life in Phnom Penh is arrested in an instant as onlookers cluster around the body of a civilian lying in the roadway, a grim focal point amid everyday vehicles and storefronts. A bicycle and a cycle rickshaw sit at awkward angles nearby, their presence underscoring how ordinary motion and routine can collide with sudden…

Dim light falls across a bare, tiled floor inside Tuol Sleng, where a murdered man’s body lies motionless and exposed. The room feels stripped of ordinary life—plain walls, hard surfaces, and a claustrophobic stillness that turns the scene into a blunt record rather than a composed portrait. Seen through the wear and damage of an…

Rows of human skulls lie in the grass at Choeung Ek, the Cambodian “Killing Fields” located just a few kilometers south of Phnom Penh. The stark contrast of pale bone against dark earth makes the scene feel both forensic and intimate, turning the landscape itself into a witness. In the distance, small figures and tree…

Stretched across the ground, the fallen figure of Napoleon I lies amid dust and broken masonry, its laurel-crowned head turned toward a tight ring of onlookers. Uniformed men with rifles stand nearest, while civilians in dark coats and brimmed hats gather behind them, their faces fixed on the toppled bronze as if taking stock of…

Under a high stone archway, soldiers and laborers move with grim purpose along a bare roadway, bending to lift the dead and gather them into a rough line. A small cart with wooden wheels waits nearby, while scattered hats and dark bundles on the ground suggest how sudden and chaotic the violence was. The harsh…

Mud, torn fabric, and exposed bones lie in the foreground as a mechanical excavator sits on the ridge above, turning the earth where a mass grave has been opened. The stark contrast between human remains and heavy equipment underscores the grim work of recovery after atrocity. Taken in the context of Srebrenica in July 1995,…

Smoke billows across the green slopes of Mount Igman as flames chew through a cluster of village houses in Ljuta, turning a quiet rural landscape into a battlefield scar. From a distance the blaze reads like a jagged line of orange against dark roofs and trees, while gray plumes drift over fields and orchards that…

Mist hangs low over a scrubby, leafless landscape where four bodies lie in a rough line, their clothing still draped over exposed bones. The foreground draws the eye to a skull turned toward the camera, surrounded by damp grass, mud, and scattered debris, while darker garments recede into the background. The scene’s quiet, wintry palette…

In a cramped, tiled morgue room in Sarajevo, the floor has become a makeshift holding place for civilians killed during the siege. Bodies are laid side by side in a grim row, some still wearing everyday clothes, others covered with bloodstained sheets and plastic. The stark lighting and hard surfaces strip away any sense of…