When he found himself living in Kigali, Rwanda while art directing Ni Nyampinga a magazine for an NGO, east London-based graphic designer, art director and photographer Tom Skipp was struck by the impact of genocide on the Rwandan people. In an unlikely twist, the experience ended up taking Tom to Bosnia on a photographic voyage to Bosnia.
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“My friend Monika Orpik planned to attend a conference on Memory in Times of War in Sarajevo, then to travel on to villages around Bosnia and follow the peace march where she was carrying out her own photographic project,” Tom tells It’s Nice That. “As I looked into the Balkan war and the genocide upon Muslims in Bosnia it resonated with an ongoing project I’m doing in London called Welcome to Briton. I had to go and see what had happened and what the situation in Bosnia is now.”
Source: itsnicethat