Career
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 includes photographic features from South Sudan, Kashmir, Mozambique, DR Congo, Nigeria and sports coverage of the 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 North Atlantic Treaty Organization"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 United States.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, his picture of a United States. 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 United States. Marine Sergeant Bee narrowly escaping Taliban bullets became an iconic image in United States. war history.
Tomasevic moved to Cairo in 2006 and was at the heart of Reuters" coverage of the Arab Spring.
In Libya, his image of a fireball that spewed up after an air strike on pro-Gaddafi fighters became an iconic image of the Libyan war, gracing the front pages of more than 100 newspapers around the globe. Tomasevic"s work has been recognised with many prestigious international awards. In 2005 he got the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photo journalism in the Portrait and Personality category and third place for news in 2011.
In 2014 he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
The Guardian "s photo team chose Goran Tomasevic as their agency photographer of the year for 2013. A gallery in Prague in 2012 held a six-week exhibition of Tomasevic"s war photography, depicting more than two decades of conflict.
Tomasevic is now Chief Photographer for Reuters in east Africa, based in Nairobi.
