Srebrenica Massacre by Andrew Testa

Srebrenica Massacre

General News, second prize singles

11/7/2008

A Bosnian boy prays over one of the 610 coffins stored at a factory in preparation for their burial on July 11, the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, when Serbs killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in ambushes and mass executions. The bodies in the coffins laid to rest in the commemoration ceremony ten years later had been exhumed from mass graves and identified by DNA testing. The search for mass graves is ongoing. Some 1,300 bodies had already been buried at the two-year-old memorial site.

Commissioned by: Panos Pictures for The New York Times

Photo Credit: Andrew Testa

Andrew was born in London, England in 1965. He began his photographic career in the early 1990s working as a freelance for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Throughout the decade he documented the growing Environmental Protest and Animal Rights movements. In 1999 he shifted his attention to the Balkans covering the war in Kosovo. At the end of 1999 he moved to Kosovo, which he used as a base to cover events throughout Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. In 2005 he moved to New York where he was based for five years. He now lives in London with his wife and two children.

He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and his work has been widely published in magazines such as Newsweek, Time, Stern, Geo, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent Magazine, Mother Jones, Mare and Granta.