General News, 2nd prize
David Turnley
Detroit Free Press / Black Star for Time
Detroit Free Press / Black Star for Time
01 January, 1995
Faced with a Croatian offensive, Serb inhabitants of the Krajina region pack into trucks and tractors in an attempt to reach Serbia. In 1995 no ethnic group in Bosnia remained untouched by anguish and upheaval. The Serbian conquest of the enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa - which underscored UN impotence to guarantee their safety - triggered a mass exodus to the last remaining Muslim strongholds.
David Turnley
American photojournalist David C. Turnley (Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1955) is the winner of two World Press Photo of the Year awards, one Pulitzer Prize, and the Overseas Press Club’s...
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