Category: Civil Wars

A file of teenage guerrilla soldiers moves down a broad roadway, rifles slung low and gear strapped tight to thin frames. Headscarves, caps, and worn uniforms blur into one another as the line stretches back toward the horizon, where more figures cluster near trees and distant buildings. The youngest faces are the hardest to forget—set…

Tension crowds the frame as a cluster of Cambodians lift and steady an injured civilian through a sunlit street in Phnom Penh. Faces turn in different directions—some searching ahead for a way through, others glancing back toward the camera—while hands grip shoulders and cloth to keep the wounded body from slipping. The scene is tight,…

Late April 1975 found the rooms of the French Embassy in Phnom Penh transformed into an improvised refuge, where exhaustion and uncertainty settled alongside those who had made it inside. Bodies lie stretched across the floor in every available gap, while a few people claim the soft edges of chairs and sofas, their posture suggesting…

Ruined façades loom over a carpet of broken stone and charred timber at the Place de la Bastille, a stark view of Paris after the fires and fighting of 1871. Entire rooms have been opened to the street like a torn stage set, with floors collapsed into jagged heaps and chimneys standing like thin sentinels…

Stone blocks are piled into a blunt wall across a Paris street, turning an elegant boulevard of shuttered windows and arcaded storefronts into a hard-edged fortification. A cannon sits just behind the barricade, its wheels half swallowed by churned-up ground and scattered masonry, while rough heaps of rubble mark where paving has been torn up…

Energy spills across the floor of a community centre disco in Catholic west Belfast, 1978, where teenagers pack in shoulder to shoulder and move as one. Faces blur with motion, hair flying, as a few dancers leap high enough to catch the eye above the crowd. In the crush of striped tops, T-shirts, and flared…

A body lies on a stretcher or sheet, the skin visibly burned and the face frozen in the stark stillness of death. The framing is close and unadorned, leaving almost no distance between the viewer and the human cost of the Bosnian Genocide in 1992. In its harsh lighting and grainy texture, the photograph reads…

A quiet city street turns into a killing ground in this stark Sarajevo war photograph, where the body of Rahmo Seremet, a 54-year-old city engineer, lies sprawled on the asphalt. His suit jacket and loosened tie suggest an ordinary workday interrupted without warning, while a closed briefcase sits nearby like a final, mute witness to…

Stenciled with the UNHCR emblem, a plastic sheet meant for shelter and basic protection lies crumpled at the edge of a gritty roadway, its surface streaked and soaked with blood. The frame holds only fragments of presence—scattered shards, a puddled stain, and a lone slipper—details that speak louder than any crowd. Aid material, designed for…

A young Bosnian fighter, dressed in camouflage and moving with practiced urgency, steadies an elderly man by the arm as they step into an exposed intersection on Sarajevo’s feared “Sniper Alley” in July 1992. The older civilian, cap pulled low and a cane in hand, clutches a crumpled paper bag—an ordinary object that feels painfully…