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, Vreme, Start) as well as in some of the most prestigious magazines in the world (New York Times, Herald Tribune, Liberation, Time, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal). In 1998 he started working for the news agency Reuters. He covered the protests and the war in Kosovo, as well as the entrance of NATO into Kosovo. Reka also spent time covering the war in Iraq. He has exhibited his works in solo exhibitions in Zagreb, Geneva (Switzerland), Nevers (France), with Jean-François Baptiste, in Saudi Arabia and Barcelona. In Kosovo he held an exhibition in 2014 at the National Gallery of Kosovo. In 1991 he published the volume of photographs Walking Through the Darkness – Kosovo 1988-1990.
