People in the News, 1st prize
Jan Grarup
Ekstra Bladet
Ekstra Bladet
01 January, 1999
March-July. A family fleeing Kosovo is reunited at the Albanian border after the mother and child had crossed alone. From March through May, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians fled Serbian aggression in Kosovo. After a lengthy hold-off in the face of NATO bombardment, Serbian president Milosevic finally accepted a peace plan for Kosovo on June 3. On June 12, NATO forces made their way into Kosovo from Albania and Macedonia. As Serbian civilians and the Yugoslavian military moved across the border to Serbia, Kosovars began to return, but many found their homes destroyed.
Jan Grarup
Grarup’s work reflects his belief in photojournalism’s role as an instrument of witness and memory to incite change, and the necessity of telling the stories of people who are re...
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