August 31, 2024 / 12:00 CEST
Barabar Centre, Pristina, Kosovo
Join Ron’s lecture on August 31 at this year’s FOTOIST International Photography Festival in Pristina, where he will share insights from his remarkable career as part of the festival’s educational events series.
Ron Haviv is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and an award-winning photojournalist dedicated to documenting conflict and raising human rights issues around the globe.
Haviv’s first photography book, “Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal,” was called “One of the best non-fiction books of the year” by The Los Angeles Times and “A chilling but vastly important record of a people’s suffering” by Newsweek. His other monographs are “Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul,” “Haiti: January 12, 2010,” “The Lost Rolls,” and “Shadow of Memory.”
Haviv has produced an unflinching record of the injustices of war covering over twenty-five conflicts, and his photography has had a singular impact. His work in the Balkans, which spanned over a decade of conflict, was used as evidence to indict and convict war criminals at the international tribunal in The Hague. President George H. W. Bush cited Haviv’s chilling photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention.
Full events program: https://fotoist.org/education/
PHOTO: Remains of Kolë Dushmani, who was beheaded and burned during the Kosova War in 1999. © Ron Haviv / VII.
About FOTOIST International Photography Festival
FOTOIST International Photography Festival is the largest photography festival in the Balkans, founded in 2023, with the aim of promoting photography and the cultural life in Pristina. The festival consists of five days of photography exhibitions, lectures, debates, film screenings, portfolio reviews, and other events.
