{"id":3268,"date":"2024-09-09T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.k-clients.com\/museum-events\/diskutim-me-alan-chin-fotograf-i-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:11:16","slug":"diskutim-me-alan-chin-fotograf-i-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"museum_events","link":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/museum-events\/diskutim-me-alan-chin-fotograf-i-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion with Alan Chin \u2013 New York Times Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a lecture at BIRN\u2019s Reporting House in Pristina, New York-based photojournalist Alan Chin reflected on his work during the 1998\u201399 Kosovo war, emphasizing the role of powerful imagery in shaping Western perceptions and accelerating international intervention. \u201cKosovo was one of those places where the work we did had an impact,\u201d he said, pointing to widely circulated photos\u2014such as that of fallen KLA fighter Ali Pacarizi\u2014as catalysts for global attention. Chin argued that the speed of the West\u2019s response in Kosovo was partly driven by guilt over the failure to act in Bosnia, particularly after the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Chin, who also covered conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, first arrived in Kosovo in 1997 and returned several times, documenting funerals, refugee flows, and border chaos. He recounted photographing civilians and moments of deep trauma, including Serbian war criminal \u017deljko \u2018Arkan\u2019 Ra\u017enatovi\u0107 at a 1999 football match, where Arkan confronted journalists for not being \u201csports photographers.\u201d For Chin, it was always the suffering of civilians that mattered most: \u201cWe followed who was being killed, and what was happening to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His participation at Reporting House\u2014an exhibition blending wartime journalism, photography, and contemporary art\u2014underscores the enduring impact of visual media in both documenting and shaping the legacy of conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a lecture at BIRN\u2019s Reporting House in Pristina, New York-based photojournalist Alan Chin reflected on his work during the 1998\u201399 Kosovo war, emphasizing the role of powerful imagery in shaping Western perceptions and accelerating international intervention. \u201cKosovo was one of those places where the work we did had an impact,\u201d he said, pointing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3266,"template":"","class_list":["post-3268","museum_events","type-museum_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/museum_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum_events\/3268\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}