February 25, 2010
Point and Shoot: “As I walked Sidika, my translator, home one afternoon a sniper narrowly missed us,” reads Christian Maréchal’s caption to his photo above, the woman and the child being unknown to him. “Strangely, we continued at a walk, as if to run was to invite another shot.”
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Sarajevo Scenes
Covering the Bosnian war was a wake-up call for a former adman turned photojournalist.
Christian Maréchal left a plush job as creative director of a London advertising agency in November 1992, drove across Europe to Croatia and Bosnia, and into Sarajevo. Founded by the Ottoman empire in the 15th ...
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