Goran Tomasevic

Who is Goran Tomasevic?

Goran Tomasevic, a Serbian photographer working for Reuters, has spent more than 20 years travelling across the globe to cover the world’s biggest stories.

Tomasevic’s award-winning pictures of wars and revolutions have become some of the most enduring images of the conflicts fought in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. His broad work also includes photographic features from South Sudan, Kashmir, Mozambique, DR Congo, Nigeria as well as sports coverage of Olympics and Soccer World cups.

After photographing the wars that followed the break-up of former Yugoslavia for a local paper, in 1996 Tomasevic joined Reuters, covering the simmering political tensions in Kosovo and the anti-Milosevic demonstrations in his home town of Belgrade. During NATO’s three-month bombardment of Serbia in 1999, Tomasevic was the only photographer working for foreign press to spend the duration of the conflict in Kosovo.

Tomasevic moved to Jerusalem in 2002, covering the second Palestinian intifada. During the U.S. led-invasion of Iraq in 2003, his picture of a U.S. marine watching the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue became one of the most memorable images of the war. He often returned to Iraq as sectarian violence escalated and regularly photographed America’s other war in Afghanistan.. His sequence of photographs of U.S. marine Sergeant Bee narrowly escaping Taliban bullets became an iconic image in U.S. war history.