Besnik Mehmeti, an ethnic Albanian photographer from North Macedonia, entered Kosovo in June 1999 with NATO troops, documenting the destruction and aftermath of the war, including scenes of burnt bodies in houses in the Pristina region. Now he is based in London as a video editor at Al Jazeera.
Mehmeti began his career documenting the lives of the ethnic Albanian community in North Macedonia in 1995, as well as the protests by Albanians in London following the turmoil in Kosovo. He returned to the region in 1998 during the Kosovo war and covered the NATO bombings from March to June 1999. During this period, he also documented the refugee crisis, capturing the dicult conditions faced by displaced Kosovo Albanians. After keeping his wartime photographs for 25 years, Mehmeti is now ready to share his work and is planning to publish a book with his photographs documenting the Kosovo war.