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Lives of Ron Haviv's photographs

Ron Haviv started his career as a photojournalist in 1989 in Panama. There he took a photo showing the country's future vice-president being beaten by a paramilitary. President Bush used it to justify the US invasion. After Panama he went to Bosnia, where in 1992, he took another iconic photograph. It shows Serbian paramilitary soldiers kicking the bodies of civilians they had just killed. That photograph was used to indict their leaders for war crimes.
A quarter of a century later, Ron is working on a documentary about the lives that these two photographs took once they left his camera.

(Image: Harush Ziberi, a Muslim in Bijelina, Bosnia begs for his life after capture by Arkan's Tigers in the spring of 1992. All photographs Courtesy Ron Haviv - VII Agency)

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