Goran Tomasevic

His work includes photographic features from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, South Sudan, Mozambique, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Burundi, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, Honduras, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Vietnam, Pakistan, United States and sports coverage of the Olympics and soccer World Cups.

• Name — Goran Tomašević • Native Name — Горан Томашевић • Born — 1969 • Birthplace — Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia • Occupation — Photojournalism • Known for — Pulitzer Prize–winner

Tomašević began photographing the war that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1991 for daily newspaper Politika. In 1996 he joined the world's largest news agency, Reuters, covering the simmering political tensions in Kosovo and the anti-Milošević demonstrations in his hometown of Belgrade since mid-1990s. During three-month NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Tomašević was the only photographer working for foreign press to spend the duration of the conflict in Kosovo. Tomašević moved to Jerusalem in 2002, covering the second Palestinian intifada. During the U.S. led invasions of Iraq in 2003, his picture of a U.S. 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 U.S. Marine Sergeant Bee narrowly escaping Taliban bullets became an iconic image in U.S. war history. Tomašević moved to Cairo in 2006 and was at the heart of Reuters' coverage of the Arab Springs. 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. He stayed in Cairo until 2012. His raw pictures of rebel fighters battling pro-Assad forces among the ruins of Aleppo and Damascus during the Syrian Civil War have won international acclaim, as did his coverage of the bloody siege on a Nairobi shopping mall in Kenya. Tomašević worked for Reuters until 2022.

In 2012, the Czech Photo Gallery in Prague held a six-week exhibition of Tomašević's war photography, depicting more than two decades of conflict. Further exhibitions were held at the Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents Club in 2014 and Perpignan, France during the Visa pour l’Image festival in 2006, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022.