Donika Shahini Lami is a well-known journalist, clinical psychologist, and activist, the founder and director of the Centre for Psychological Well-being “ORA”, providing counselling, psychotherapy, and treatment services for various psycho-social issues, including post-traumatic stress and domestic violence. From 1997...

Vaughan Smith is a freelance cameraman who was shot - the bullet fortunately lodging in his mobile telephone - while exclusively filming the Prekaz massacre. In 1998 Vaughan organised and filmed the first unmasked interview with a member of the...

Jeta Xharra is a leading journalist in Western Balkans who initiated the Reporting House in Kosovo while running the biggest non-governmental organization in Kosovo, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) with 70 staff. She got into journalism working as a fixer/local...

David Loyn is an author, journalist and analyst who specialises in Afghanistan, South Asia and imperial history. He is on an advisory panel to the FCDO on South Asia policy, and co-convenor of a mid-career course for diplomats for the...

Ilaz Bylykbashi, born on May 16, 1955, in Baicë, Lipjan, developed an early interest in photography during high school in Gjilan. He pursued studies in Literature and Albanian Language in Pristina but faced interruptions due to personal issues. Needing employment...

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...

Born in 1961 in Ferizaj, he lives and works between Ferizaj and Pristina. He started working as a professional photographer in 1984 for Bota e Re magazine. His photographs have been published in leading former Yugoslavian magazines (Mladina, Delo, Oslobođenje,...

Orla Guerin, BBC Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin became the BBC's Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg, in January 2006. Before that she had reported from the BBC's hub bureau in Jerusalem as Middle East correspondent for five years. She reported...

Since March 2003 Jeremy Bowen has been a special correspondent for BBC Television News. He previously co-presented BBC One's Breakfast for two years after its launch in October 2000. Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 as a news trainee. He...

Matthew Price has been a BBC Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem since March 2004. Prior to this, he was the BBC's Belgrade correspondent from 2002 and covered events across the former Yugoslavia and Albania. Matthew joined the BBC in...

Fergal Keane is a special correspondent for BBC News, based in London in the BBC's World Aairs unit. Fergal Keane joined the BBC in 1989 as Northern Ireland correspondent. In August 1990 he was appointed Southern African correspondent, having covered...

Paul Wood was appointed as BBC defence correspondent in May 2005. He was previously the BBC's Middle East correspondent covering the Arab world. He was in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and in Fallujah during the battle for...

Kate Adie, author and broadcaster, became a familiar figure to viewers through her work as the BBC's Chief News Correspondent. She is considered to be among the very finest reporters, as well as one of the first British women, sending...

Ben Brown joined the BBC TV News in 1988 and was a Foreign Aairs Correspondent until 1991, reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War, from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He was appointed Moscow Correspondent in 1991,...

Eliza is an architect by trade, but the public remembers her from her engagements in music, photography, writing, arts, and politics. Above all, she is an urban activist in both times of war and peace. In the 1990s, she worked...

Alan Chin is an American photographer, professor, and writer who has worked as a freelance photojournalist in various global hotspots since 1996, including China, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Asia, Egypt, and Tunisia. In the U.S., he has documented the Civil...

Thomas Dworzak, born in Germany in 1972, is a renowned photographer who has covered major news events since the 1990s. He began traveling and photographing conflicts at 16, including those in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and Yugoslavia. Dworzak pursued photography and...

Pål Refsdal was born in Kongsvinger, Norway. He graduated from the Norwegian Army Ocer School in 1983 at the age of 19. Refsdal reported on various conflicts during the 1980s, including the Soviet-Afghan war, where he met British writer Jason...

In a career spanning more than thirty years Andrew Testa has worked extensively in the UK, the Balkans and the Middle East photographing issues around conflict, human rights and the environment. Andrew was born in London, England in 1965. He...

I was born in Himeji, Japan in 1953. I joined Nippon Television(NTV) in Tokyo in 1978 and started working as a news reporter. First I covered domestic news such as politics. Then in 1989 world history changed: The Berlin Wall...

Paul Lowe is an award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in prominent publications like Time, Newsweek, Life, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, The Independent and The Telegraph magazine. He has covered significant global events such as the fall...

This courageous British independent documentary maker began his career as Christopher Wenner, a theatre actor and director then co-presenter of the BBC’s flagship children’s TV program Blue Peter in the late 1970s. In the 1980s he started travelling to conflict...

Dr. Emir Suljagić is a journalist, author, professor, and Director of the Memorial Center Srebrenica since 2019. Suljagić holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg. He served as Minister of Education of Sarajevo Canton from 13...

Denis Džidić has been the executive director and editor of BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina (Detektor portal) since 2019. He started his journalistic career in the daily newspaper Oslobođenje in 2006. He joined BIRN BiH in 2008. He devoted most of...

Marija Ristic is an investigative journalist, with a decade-long experience in war crimes reporting, open-source research and emerging technologies. She is currently a manager at Amnesty International Crisis Evidence Lab, running Digital Verification Corps – a network that supports Amnesty...

Ridvan Slivova is one of Kosovo’s most prominent photojournalists and one of the visual witnesses to the country’s modern history. He began his professional career as a photographer for the newspaper Rilindja, at a time when photography and journalism were...

Jehona Lushaku Sadriu is a university professor and political science expert with a long-standing academic and professional career focused on Kosovo, European integration, and higher education. Born in Prishtina in 1980, she completed studies in Political Science and Public Administration,...

Fred Scott is a British director and producer known for his work in documentary filmmaking and cinematic portraiture. He is a BAFTA-winning director, and his work has also received nominations for other major film industry awards. Scott specialises in documentaries...

Nora Weller is a photographer and visual documentarian whose work is connected to the documentation of Kosovo and the period of the war. Through photography, she has contributed to preserving the visual memory of a time marked by conflict, population...

Sean Whelan is an Irish journalist and one of the well-known figures of RTÉ News, with a career spanning several decades in international, political, and economic journalism. He joined RTÉ in 1991 and, during the early years of his career,...

Goran Tomašević is a Serbian photojournalist with an international career, best known for his photographic documentation of wars and armed conflicts. He has worked for Reuters and has covered conflicts in the Balkans and in other parts of the world....

Sami Mustafa is a Kosovar documentary filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter, born in Plemetina in 1984. He is particularly known for his work documenting the life, culture, identity, and rights of the Roma community. He began his filmmaking career in 2003,...

Alban Bujari (1970 - 2025) was one of Kosovo’s most prominent photojournalists and a direct witness to both the war and post-war periods. He began his career in 1997 at the newspaper Koha Ditore, at a time when Kosovo was...

Linda Gusia is a Kosovar academic and professional working in the fields of social studies, education, and gender equality. She is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Prishtina and Chair of the Board of Kosovo...

Eki Rrahmani is a producer, director, and editor with a long-standing career in documentary journalism and international film production. He describes his work as a combination of investigative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and human-centred storytelling. His portfolio includes projects produced in...

Murteza Kurti is a photographer and contributor to the documentation of events and developments in Kosovo. His photographic materials form part of the Reporting House contributors’ collection and contribute to the broader effort to preserve Kosovo’s visual memory. The contribution...

Adrian Paci was born into a well-known family in Shkodra, the son of the painter Ferdinand Paci and Brigjilda. He lost his father at an early age, when he was just seven years old. In 1987, he began his studies...

Anri Sala creates transformative time-based works through the complex relationships between image, architecture and sound, using these elements to refract, disrupt and question our experience. His works explore ruptures in language, syntax and music, inviting creative shifts that generate new...

Lana Čmajčanin is a contemporary artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, born in Sarajevo in 1983. She earned a master’s degree in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Sarajevo and pursued doctoral studies at the Academy...

Born in 1975 in Maputo, Mozambique. Lives and works in Maputo. Gonçalo Mabunda’s work is dedicated to preserving the memory of his country. Having grown up amid the tragic civil war that devastated Mozambique from the mid-1970s until the early...

Zhanna Kadyrova was born in 1981 in Brovary, in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, where she currently lives and works. She is a member of the R.E.P. (Revolution Experimental Space) group. After graduating from the Taras Shevchenko State Art School...

Agron Blakçori is a contemporary artist from Kosovo who lives and works in Prishtina. He holds a master’s degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Prishtina. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Blakçori explores...

Besa Llugiqi is a soprano from Kosovo, born in Prishtina in 1986. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Prishtina under Professor Ahmet Dërguti before pursuing a master’s degree at the Faculty of Music in...

Driton Hajredini is a contemporary artist from Kosovo, born in Prishtina in 1970, where he also grew up. He studied at art academies in Kosovo and Germany and currently lives and works between the two countries. His artistic practice spans...

Hussein al-Jerjawi is a young Palestinian artist from the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City. Working primarily in drawing and portraiture, he captures everyday life, human experiences, and the realities of war in the Gaza Strip. He creates art under extremely...

Vullnet Jakupi is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Prishtina, working primarily in installation and video. His practice combines history and personal storytelling to explore fragmented memories, abandoned spaces, and memory held in the body. Through his exploration of resilience...

Vita Kasapolli (born in 2001 in Kosovo) is a contemporary artist based in Prishtina. Since 2020, she has been co-curator of the artistic programme of the Anibar International Animation Festival. In 2022, she worked as a cultural mediator at Manifesta...