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Andrew Testa Photographer Andrew was born in London, England in 1965. He began his photographic career in the early 1990s working as a freelance for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Throughout the decade he documented the growing Environmental Protest and Animal Rights movements. In 1999 he shifted his attention to the Balkans covering the war in Kosovo. At the end of 1999 he moved to Kosovo, which he used as a base to cover events throughout Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. He now splits his time between New York and Kosovo. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and The Observer and his work has been widely published in magazines such as Newsweek, Time, Stern, Geo, Paris Match, Der Spiegel, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent Magazine, Mother Jones and Mare.

Number of Titles: 17

The wrong side of the tracks

Moken Fishing

War

The Moken

Aftermath

Status Pending

Afghanistan

Trafficking

New York Kosher

Srebrenica

Acid Attacks in Bangladesh

Macedonia

Protest

Liverpool

Bayonne

Portraits

Number of Captions: 276

Djakova – A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves in Serbia. The Serbian government is slowly releasing the bodies back to their families for burial.

Djakova – A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves in Serbia. The Serbian government is slowly releasing the bodies back to their families for burial.

Djakova – A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves in Serbia. The Serbian government is slowly releasing the bodies back to their families for burial.

Lorum Ipsum

Djakova – A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves in Serbia. The Serbian government is slowly releasing the bodies back to their families for burial.

Djakova – A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves in Serbia. The Serbian government is slowly releasing the bodies back to their families for burial.

Djakova – A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves in Serbia. The Serbian government is slowly releasing the bodies back to their families for burial.

Djakova – A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves in Serbia. The Serbian government is slowly releasing the bodies back to their families for burial.

December 31st 1999. Blackbirds fly over a Prishtina suburb

Nobisa Begam, 15 years old. Photographed three days after she was attacked for refusing a marriage proposal.

A docker plays snooker in the pub after a shift on the picket line.

Prishtina's housing estates at night.

Dhaka

Angura. 30 years old, with her five year old son and her mother. Her husband and another man burnt her eyes with a blowtorch and then threw acid on her after she refused her husband permission to take another woman into their home.

Konolla receives treatment at the Acid Survivors Foundation Hospital. She was attacked by her husband with acid after she refused to give him permission to take another woman.

A political rally for the PDK (Democratic Party of Kosovo), led by Hashim Thaci, known as Commander 'Snake' during his days in the Kosovo Liberation Army.

A body builder at his club, Prishtina.

The Triage room of the Acid Survivors Foundation Hospital in Dhaka.

February 1999. A column of Yugoslav Army Tanks prepare to leave their barracks 10 km west of Prishtina.

The city as seen from the 13th floor of the Grand Hotel, Prishtina's sprawling, communist style centrepiece hotel.

March 1999. Albanian children look at bullet holes left after a Serb attack on an Albanian cafe in Pristina in which one man died and four were injured.

Albanian refugees leave the woods below Gajre, near the border with Macedonia, where they had been hiding for three days from Serb shelling of their villages.

Moken children.

The Chief of the Moken hunting for fish.

Men walk ashore after tying their boats.

Moken boys make their way to shore after tying their boats.

A sick woman is tended to by the Chief of the village.

Boy standing on coral.

The funeral of Dobrivoje Savalic, a 42 year old Serb civilian killed by the Kosovo Liberation Army after being kidnapped from the village of Velica Hoca.

February 1999. The blood of Mirko Milosevic, a Serb, killed next to his house by the Kosovo Liberation Army during fighting in the village of Bukos.

An Imam walks away from the grave of Emine Muharemi, aged 75, who was shot in the leg by Serb civilians as she left Mitrovica. She died one week after arriving in Albania

Boys hunting for fish with spears.

The Moken village on South Surin Island.

The Chief with one of his grandsons.

Dockers on the picket line.

Collecting strike pay in a local pub.

Docker's wife Sue Mitchell.

Billy Jenkins

Konolla receives treatment at the Acid Survivors Foundation Hospital. She was attacked by her husband with acid after she refused to give him permission to take another woman.

Overlooking Kabul, December 2001.

Men watch a Quail fight in Chaff Sreet in Kabul. Fighting with birds and dogs was banned under the Taliban, but saw a resurgence as soon as the regime was toppled.

Balloon sellers make their way into the centre of Kabul.

Members of the Naqshbandi Dervish community worship in a Khanaga in Kabul.

Afghans queue for Aid next to a University Student Hostel destroyed during fighting between rival warlords in the 1990's.

Eastern Alliance fighters return from the front lines at Tora Bora near Jalalabad.

Early morning in Kabul.

Nobis Begam lies on her bed in a ward at the Acid Survivors Foundation hospital in Dhaka. She says that she feels "like spoiled fruit, no one will ever look at me again".

Salma (left), 10 years old. She suffered major acid burns after her family was attacked and acid thrown on them whilst they slept. The reason was a land dispute.

Munira, 15 years old. She was attacked after refusing a marriage proposal when she was 13 years old.

Lilima. She was married off to a 42-year old at the age of 10, attacked with acid when she refused to sleep with her husband. She spent 15 years indoors at her parents house untill she was discovered by aid workers and given help at the Dhaka clinic.

Lili, 26 years old. Attacked for refusing an offer of marriage.

Nobis Begam. 15 Years old. Photographed three days after acid was thrown in her face for refusing a marriage proposal.

The Moken are Animists and build Totems to the spirits of their ancestors and animals.

Women playing cards and smoking cigarettes. Scientists studying the Moken point to these kinds of activities as evidence of the detrimental effect contact with developed world is having on the Moken.

Children piggy back on an older member of the tribe.

The eyesight of Moken children underwater is over 50% better than the eyesight of other children. Experiments are underway in Sweden to see if European children can be trained to see as well as the Moken.

Men hunting fish underwater.

A boy jumps from his house into the sea at high tide.

Liverpool docks

In 2003 the families of ethnic Albanians still missing from the 1998-99 war hung portraits of their loved ones on the perimeter fence of the Kosovo Parliament to protest that the search for bodies was going too slowly. Today over 2500 Albanians, Serbs and Roma are still missing.

Men sit next to a wall which has suffered a direct hit from a rocket.

An Albanian woman who was trafficked to Italy and forced to work as a prostitute. She managed to escape from her traffickers and was photographed in a refuge in Albania.

The main Bus station in Chisinau, Moldova. Over the last ten years one third of the population has left the country to work abroad, this includes girls and women who are lured by false promises of shengen visas and work as au pairs or waitresses, who are then trafficked into the sex trade.

A 14 year old girl walks home in an "empty" village in Moldova. Both her parents have left the country to look for work, leaving her alone to fend for herself and look after her 11 year old brother. Organisations such as UNICEF see children such as these as having a very high risk of being trafficked.

A young Moldovan woman who was trafficked to Moscow to work as a prostitute. When she became pregnant her pimps began to beat her and threatened to get rid of her baby. She escaped and is now in hiding in Moldova.

A youth looks out over the heavily damaged Mosque in Matejce, Macedonia. The village was part of the front line in the war in 2001, and suffered heavy damage. The main road that runs through the villlage to the border is one of the main routes used for smuggling trafficked women into Macedonia.

A young boy in a Roma neighbourhood of Tirana, Albania. He has just been returned from Greece by the police after he was trafficked there by members of his own family to beg for money.

A trafficked woman in a Government run transit centre in Skopje, Macedonia. Girls are brought here either after escaping from enforced prostitution or being arrested in Police raids. They are then returned to their country of origin.

Faded photographs advertise a sex bar in the resort town of Ohrid in southern Macedonia.

Suspected sex workers at a bar in Ohrid, Macedonia, wait with their passports after a police raid. They will be offered a lawyer and also a place in a Government run safe house/transit centre. After a few days or weeks, they will be deported.

Trafficked women from Moldova, who were taken from brothels during police raids, watch tv in a Government safehouse in Skopje, Macedonia.

A protester against the Newbury Bypass occupies a tree along the route to try to prevent it from being cut down.

Newbury Bypass. Acivists prevent trees from being felled by sitting in them.

Police attempt a dawn raid on Camelot, the last camp on the route of the Newbury Bypass. April 1996

A protester taunts police and bailiffs who are preparing to evict the last squatted house on the route of the M11 motorway, London.

Bailiffs approach a protester on the roof of one of the houses in Claremont Road, which was occupied to try to prevent the construction of the M11 motorway into east London.

Flinney takes a break from building his tree house in Stanworth Valley. When the police and bailiffs moved in to evict the camp in May 1995, there were 42 tree houses linked by rope walkways stretching accross the valley. The eviction took five days to complete with over 70 arrests.

Kostas makes his way through one of a number of tunnels built under the route of the propsed A30 road in the west of England. The tunnels were designed to collapse if heavy machinery was driven over them, ensuring that the people inside had to be evicted before work on the road could start.

Fort Trollheim, constructed out of already felled trees on the route of the A30 in Devon, the camp was occupied for over two tears before it was cleared by police and bailiffs in 1997.

Protesters at the Newbury Bypass.

Allercombe camp, built to stop the construction of the A30 road in the west of England. The camp was manned for over two years before its eviction in 1997.

Stanworth Valley. Occupied by protesters trying to stop the construction of the M65 motorway.

Stanworth Valley. Protesters against the construction of the M65 motorway in the North of England celebrate the Pagan festival of Beltane. The next day a five day eviction of the tree top village began. There were 72 arrests and more than 200 people were brought down from the trees.

Taff being evicted from Stanworth Valley. 'The Bailliff said "Let go of the fuckin rope, or I'll cut your fingers off." So I did.'

Newbury Bypass. Hundreds of security guards and police guard diggers that have been clearing woodland to make way for the road. There is one protester (front row middle) accompanying them.

The only trees left standing after the departure of a chainsaw gang are those protected by the protesters.

A hunt saboteur tries to disrupt the Surrey Union fox hunt by splitting the pack of hounds. Surrey, Southern England. 1993.

The South Down and Eridge hunt, Kent.

Hunters and saboteurs clash at the Beaufort Hunt.

Police try to stop saboteurs from reaching the Hunt.

A group of hunt saboteurs is ambushed by riders and foot followers from the Crawley and Horsham fox hunt.

Riders gather at a hunt in Leicestershire.

The prey. A fox killed by a hunt in Wales is left hanging from a tree.

A group of hunt saboteurs after being attacked by security guards hired by the Surrey Union hunt.

Reclaim the Streets, London. An offshoot of the Road Protest movement, RTS began occupying city streets without warning in 1995. The idea was to take the streets away from cars and give them to people.

Srebrenica.

Potocari. A young boy prays over one of the nearly 600 coffins that were placed in the Battery Factory in Potocari in preparation for their burial on the 11th July 2005, the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

Forensic scientists from the ICMP (International Committee for Missing Persons) exhume the bodies of Muslim men executed during the Srebrenica massacre from a mass grave in Republica Srpska. Most of the bodies had their hands tied behind their backs with wire.

Potocari. A girl weeps as her father, killed in 1995, is laid to rest on the tenth anniversary of the massacre.

Bodies exhumed from mass graves around Srebrenica are kept at the Podrinje Identification Project in Tuzla.

Cemented over bullet holes at the warehouse in Kravica where over a thousand men attempting to escape Srebrenica were murdered by Serbian forces.

Potocari. The graves of men massacred by Serbian forces in and around Srebrenica in July 1995.

Emir Suljagic, a UN translator who survived the massacre, in the Battery Factory in Potocari where soldiers under the command of Ratko Mladic began to separate Bosniak men from women prior to the men being massacred by Bosnian Serb forces.

Nura and Ahmet Begovic, Bosnian muslim returnees to Potocari. The morning after they returned to their old home, they found the flayed carcass of their cow outside their front door.

Sija Mustafic in her home in Srebrenica. Pictures of her husband and son, who were killed in the massacre hang on the wall behind her.

The body of a Bosnian muslim man is laid out at the re-association centre in Lukavac. This is part of indentification process that uses DNA matching to try to reassemble bodies unearthed after the massacre.

Milos Milanovic (right) and Cvetin Petrovic, members of the paramilitary Serbian Guard in 1992. Milanovic now sits on the Srebrenica council as a representative of the SDS, the political party founded by Radovan Karadzic. He doesn't believe a massacre took place at Srebrenica.

A snow covered field that was the site of one of the many massacres that took place around Srebrenica in July 1995. One man, Mevludin Oric, survived the massacre here.

A woman cries as she is split from her family as Albanian refugees flee the wooded hills below Gajre where they had been hiding for three days from Serb shelling of their villages.

A KLA soldier killed during fighting between KLA and Serbian forces in the village of Jeskova near the Macedonian border.

Albanian children look into the remains of the house of KLA Commander Adem Jashari who was killed along with 28 members of his family during a four day battle with Serbian security forces at his home in Prekaz.

Albanian men wait to be taken away after being separated from their women and children by Serbian police. They had left their village after Serb forces began an offensive against the KLA.

A child runs through the ruins of her home in Polac, in the heart of the KLA controlled Drenica region.

A Serbian policeman killed in a Kosovo Liberation Army ambush 10km west of Pristina.

Independence celebrations begin in Prishtina. Kosovo's parliament declared independence from Serbia on the 17th February 2008.

Albanian houses burn in Polac, after an attack by Serbian forces.

An exhausted Albanian youth sleeps in the woods where he and members of his family are hiding after Serbian forces attacked his village.

KLA fighters guard a road into the Drenica region, the heartland of the insurgency.

A Yugoslav Army base on the outskirts of Prishtina burns after being hit by NATO bombs on the first night of the NATO bombardment of Serbia.

Kosovo Albanians gather in the no-mans land between the Macedonian and Serbian borders at Blace after being expelled from Kosovo by Serbian forces.

Refugees queue for food and humanitarian aid in Kukes, Northern Albania.

Sister Anjelica at Devic Serbian Orthodox Monastery. The Monastery was deep in KLA territory, but survived the war, only to be destroyed in anti Serb rioting in 2004.

Refugee girl arriving in Albania.

Brazda refugee camp in Macedonia.

The skull of a seventeen year old Albanian killed by Serb troops in Drenica, a rope was tied round his leg and he was dragged behind their vehicle before being dumped.

Serbian Paramilitaries on a convoy of Serb units leaving Kosovo North of Podujevo.

Kosovo Liberation Army fighters from the Atlantic Brigade celebrate the withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo on their arrival in Prishtina after leaving the front lines on Pastrik mountain near Albania, which saw some of the heaviest fighting between Serbs and KLA.

An Albanian boy, with an umbrella to protect himself from the heat walks through the ruins of Mitrovica after the withdrawal of Serbian forces.

A man walks through the destroyed old town in Gjakova.

Stray dogs abandoned by their owners during the ethnic cleansing of the war, roam the deserted streets of the Albanian majority town of Pej/Pec just after the withdrawal of Serbian forces.

Relatives of Radovan Ognjenovic mourn at his funeral. He was killed after his tractor drove over an anti tank mine newly planted on a road used exclusively by Serbs.

British troops stand guard as Albanians demonstrate against Serbs in the north of the city. Rioting broke out after 50,000 Albanians tried to storm the bridge separating the two communities following a night of killings when a Serbian mob went on the rampage and killed ten Albanians.

A British soldier draws his gun in anger as around 50,000 Albanian demonstrators threatened to overun British forces and storm the bridge separating the Serb and Albanian communities in Mitrovica. This followed the murder of ten Albanians a few days previously at the hands of a Serbian mob.

The body of Commander "Drini" (Ekrem Rexha) lies in the courtyard of his house in Prizren before his burial. One of the most influential KLA commanders during the war with Serbia, Drini had been working closely with the UN and other International organisations before his murder.

A Serb prisoner in detention in Northern Mitrovica.

Serbian passengers get off a train in Zvecan, in the Serb dominated, norther part of Kosovo.

A derailed train.

Alice Munro

Serb passengers on the Kosovo Polje to Zvecan train. This train, heavily guarded by KFOR troops is the only way many Serbs can travel in Kosovo. The service has been suspended many times due to bomb attacks.

A moken boy swims down to the coral.

A Serbian girl on the Kosovo Polje to Zvecan train.

View from the train.

NATO soldiers stand guard as Serbian passengers board a train in the Albanian majority part of Kosovo.

The body of Xhemal Mustafa is prepared for burial. A journalist and high ranking member of the liberal Albanian Democratic League of Kosovo party, he was shot and killed outside his apartment in central Pristina.

An Albanian man clears his garden after returning to rebuild his house which was destroyed during the war.

NATO peacekeepers stand watch over a Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo Polje/Fushe Kosova.

Albanian children look at damage caused during fighting between Serbian forces and the ethnic Albanian insurgents of the UCPMB (Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac). The UCPMB were attempting to join these three Albanian majority towns, which were still in Serbia, to Kosovo.

Serbs in the ethnically mixed town of Vitina watch as the body of a local Serb man is taken to his funeral in Serbia. He was murderd in the market in Vitina by an unknown assailant who shot him three times in the back.

A torn Milosevic poster on a wall in Belgrade city centre days after his arrest by the new Government.

The remains of the Roma neighborhood in Mitrovica, destroyed after the war by Albanian mobs in apparent revenge for supposed Roma collaboration with Serb forces during the war.

The 'Peace Train', which had been used to ethnically cleanse Albanians during the Kosovo war, and subsequently been used to give safe passage to Serbs and Roma after the war was converted to house DJ's from Kosovo and Serbia who played to an audience of Albanians, Serbs and Roma.

A destroyed house in the village of Svinjare. Over a three day period starting the 18th March 2004, Serbs were expelled from the village and their houses destroyed by an Albanian mob. The village lies 600 Metres away from the largest KFOR base in Northern Kosovo.

Serbian Priests make a crucifix out of candles with four C's (Samo Sloga Serbina Spasava, "Only unity saves the Serbs") at the monument to the Battle of Kosovo Field (1389) at Gazemestan. Every year Serbs visit the site to hold a religious ceremony to mark the occasion of their defeat at the battle.

A girl collapses during a mass burial of Kosovar Albanians who were killed during the war in 1999 and transported to mass graves near the Serbian capital Belgrade. The Serbian Government slowly released the bodies back to their families for burial. The last shipment was in 2006.

The Kalabria pizzeria in Suva Reka, the scene of one of the most infamous massacres of the war in Kosovo. 57 members of the Berisha family, mostly women and children were murdered here in March 1999. Their bodies were transported to a mass grave just outside Belgrade.

The Serbian village of Dolac.The village still lies in ruins, seven years after the war. It was destroyed in 1999 by vengeful Albanians after NATO troops entered Kosovo and Serb troops withdrew.

A radio transmitter station that was taken over by Serbian Army and Police during the war in 1999 and was subsequently destroyed by NATO bombs.

Polluted river

Petrol station. It is estimated that Kosovo has more petrol stations per head of population than anywhere else in the world. It has been suggested that the explanation for this is money laundering.

Although Kosovo remains the poorest area in Europe, Kosovo's economy is booming for some. In the middle of one of Prishtina's many housing projects, this mansion belongs to a food importer.

Teenagers playing football in the suburbs of Prishtina.

Satellite dishes on a Prishtina housing project

Members of the KPC (Kosovo Protection Corps) walk back to their buses after attending a ceremony in Prishtina. The KPC, which was formed from the ranks of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army will be disbanded under the UN plan for independence, and it's soldiers are due to undergo retraining

Night of the fires. More than 30,000 Kosovars gather yearly at the village of Prekaz where Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari was killed along with 30 members of his family by Serbian security forces in 1998. His life and death has become a legend for the Albanian population.

Petrol Station

A new Mosque

The graves of Albanian Muslims and Catholics in Meja, near the border with Albania. The worst massacre of the war took place on this spot, with nearly 500 people, mostly men, being taken from refugee convoys and executed by the side of the road.

Kosovo's decrepit Kosovo A power plant.

A birthday cake marking the second anniversary of the Dockers strike.

Albanian children watch the Kosovo Polje to Zvecan train, which serves as a lifeline to the remaining Serbs in Kosovo, being the only way that many can travel safely within the province.

Ceca

Joshua Ferris

Rufus Wainwright

Martha Wainwright

Thomas Hearns

Arthur Frommer

Max Minghella

Mia Farrow

A fast food restaurant. The grafitti on the wall behind reads 'No negotiation, self determination!', in reference to the final status negotiations which have been ongoing for more than a year.

Frank McCourt

Franz Ferdinand

Jodi Picoult

Relatives mourn over the body of Sylejman Ramadani, a 42 year old ethnic Albanian who was shot as he closed his garage door during heavy fighting between Macedonian forces and the Albanian rebels of the National Liberation Army on the outskirts of the city of Tetovo.

Left to right, Xanthe Elbrick, Hugh Dancy, Eve Best, Gavin Lee and Michael Sheen, 45th St Manhattan.

Macedonian Special police and soldiers fire on rebel National Liberation Army positions on a hill above the city of Tetovo.

A member of the National Liberation Army, a rebel Albanian army that emerged and began a conflict with the Macedonian Army and police in 2001. Their stated aim was to fight for the rights of the Albanian minority in Macedonia.

Dockers on the picket line.

The 'Women of the Waterfront' mark the second anniversary of the strike. The group was set up by the wives of the dockers to help their husbands and families through the strike.

Ethnic Albanian fighters with the National Liberation Army make their way to their front line positions overlooking Tetovo.

Izair Haliti saves his cattle from his family compound which was set alight as Macedonian forces moved through the rebel held village of Gajre.

Albanian refugees from Lopate arrive in Kumanovo after fleeing the Macedonian offensive against the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army.

Macedonian Army and Special police units move into positions overlooking the rebel held village of Slupcane during the third day of their offensive against the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army.

Etnic Albanian women from the rebel held village of Otlja hide in the basement of the Mosque from the Macedonian Army's artillery bombardment which had entered its sixth day.

Macedonian Slav contestants wait to go on stage in the bikini section of the Miss Macedonia contest in Skopje.

Passers by look through a bullet shattered shop front in the ethnic Albanian quarter of Skopje. The shots were fired during anti Government riots by Macedonian Slavs dissatisfied with a ceasefire agreement with the Albanian rebels of the National Liberation Army.

Ethnic Albanian women from the rebel held village of Vaksince rest in a field after fleeing the village which had been under bombardment by the Macedonian Army for three weeks.

Relatives tend to the body of 11 year old Tafil Veseli, who was shot in the back the previous night as he slept on the balcony of his home. The family blamed their Macedonian Slav neighbours. The village had only three Albanian families amongst its population, all three left following the attack.

A Macedonian construction worker who was kidnapped by members of the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army. He was kept for 12 hours and tortured, the first letter of his name was carved into his back with a knife before being released.

A brother of ethnic Albanian Bajram Jashari is pulled away from the scene of his murder. He was shot several times in the back during an attack by Macedonian police and paramilitaries on the village of Ljuboten.

The body of Suleman Bajrami, 23 years old, lies in the village of Ljuboten. Villagers say that he was pulled from a basement by Macedonian Special Police and shot in the back.

The body of Xhelal Bajrami lies on a hill just above the village of Ljuboten. He had been shot several times in the back, apparently as he was running away.

The body of Muharem Ramadani lies in the village of Ljuboten. Villagers claimed that he was pulled from a basement by Macedonian Special Police forces and shot in the street.

The body of an ethnic Albanian man lies on a hill just above the village of Ljuboten. He had been shot several times in the back.

Ethnic Albanian children run for cover as a British Helicopter lands in Sipkovica, headquarters of the rebel National Liberation Army in the mountains above the Albanian dominated city of Tetovo, during negotiations to end the eight month old conflict.

Days before a ceasefire was announced, members of the 112th Brigade of the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army carry the coffin of Ismail Mehmeti, a rebel soldier killed during a firefight with Macedonian forces in Tetovo.

Soldiers from the 112th Brigade of the National Liberation Army wait to hand in their weapons to NATO soldiers at a collection point in the village of Brodec in the mountains above Tetovo.

The body of an Albanian policeman is prepared for burial near the town of Tetovo. After the end of the conflict, Tetovo and the surrounding areas witnessed a descent into lawlessness as former rebel groups fought for influence and territory.

Masgiach Rabbi Avrohom Stone driving to make an unannounced visit to one of his businesses. He has 72 Kosher businesses on his books. He has to keep an inventory of all ingredients they use plus he has to check that they are all Kosher, and he must make surprise visits to try to catch them out.

On the Brooklyn/Queens Expressway, Manhattan in the distance.

Mackerel ready for processing at Banner Smoked Fish Inc in Coney Island.

Moshe Mairowitz (right), the Plant Manager of A&B Famous Gefilte Fish Inc in New Jersey, checks whitefish on a light box to see if it has any infestation of worms. Once checked, the fish is mixed with various other ingredients and made into Gefilte fish

Rabbi Avrohom Stone, a Masgiach employed by the Orthodox Union checks vats and containers at Technical Oil Products in Pennsylvania. He keeps inventories of all the 72 businesses that he is responsible for on his laptop.

Workers prepare smoked Salmon at Banner Smoked Fish Inc in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Apartment block, Brooklyn.

A Hasidic Jew descends from 55th St Subway Station, Brooklyn.

Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Borough Park.

Rabbi Avrohom Stone arrives at Keystone Food Products.

Zalmen Teitelbaum serves fish at the Mehadron Fish Market inc, Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Sukkot feestival, Brooklyn.

The Bubov Sukkah in Brooklyn. Jews wait for the arrival of the Rabbi as the Sukkot holiday nears its end.

Rabbi Avrohom Stone prays at a rest stop in Pennsylvania on his way home, due to the pressures of his work, he often finds himself praying in unusual places.

Dockers walk home in the rain after their shift on the picket line.

Juri Gagarina 118 in Belgrade. After leaving the Topcider Serbian Army barracks where he had been hiding until 2002, Ratko Mladic lived in apartment number 20 in this block for over two years until January 2006, protected by his bodyguards. His next door neighbour was a Bosnian Muslim.

A scene from a police video of the exhumation of a mass grave at Batajnica, 15 Kilometres North of Belgrade, shows the hand of one the bodies exhumed. Many of the bodies in this grave came from the massacres at Suva Reka and Meja in Kosovo.

A Northern Alliance soldier beats a crowd of Afghans as they swarm around a World Food Programme truck carrying wheat at a food distribution point in central Kabul.

Taliban prisoners in a Kabul jail.

Dockers on the picket line shout abuse as the workforce that was employed to replace them arrives at work.

Eastern Alliance fighters prepare to leave the front in the Tora Bora mountains near Jalalabad.

Afghan teachers return to their High School which was closed under the Taliban.

Rob Newman

Women grieve as the body of a Serb man is taken away for burial. He was killed by a landmine near the town of Obilic.

Girls at a special school for abandoned children in Moldova. These girls are at the greatest risk from trafficking.

20 year old Albanian girl at a shelter. Forced into prostitution aged 16 by her husband. He then sold her to a pimp in Kosovo. She escaped back to Albania where she was kidnapped by some former clients and taken to Macedonia and then Greece, where she was forced to be a prostitute again.

The grounds of a disused factory.

The Patriarchate of Pec, the spiritual home of the Serbian Orthodox church for many centuries. The areas surrounding the church are now almost exclusively Albanian, and although KFOR troops stand guard outside, the Church authorities have started building a high wall around the grounds.

A crowded Albanian swimming pool close to the border that runs unspoken and unmarked between the Serb and Albanian communities in Mitrovica.

The Missing

The mother of one of the three Albanian boys, whose death by drowning after allegedly being chased into the river Ibar by local Serbs set off a wave of ethnic violence that left at least 19 dead, surrounded by relatives at the funeral of two of the boys.

Longshoreman Jorge Aguilar outside Global Docks.

John Duddy

Bayonne docks seen from Brooklyn bridge.

Newark Bay.

Tommy Hanley in his apartment in Bayonne. His father was kiiled on the docks by the Mafia when he was 4 months old. When he was 14 he played a part alongside Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. He has been working on the docks for 50 years and is now Recording Secretary for Local 1588 .

Manny Ferreras, Trustee of Local 1588.

Tony Perlstein, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 1588, in his car where he often sleeps in between shifts.

Hudson County Park in Bayonne. Mafiosi John DiGilio, who controlled Local 1588 from the mid 1970's till his murder in the late 1980's, used this park to meet high ranking members of the union.

A Catholic church in Bayonne.

The remains of a pier on the west side of Manhattan. Tom Hanley's father worked these piers as a longshoreman until his murder by the mafia when Tom was four months old.

Ships wait in New York Bay just off Staten Island to enter the docks at Bayonne. Manhattan, Jersey city and Brooklyn can be seen behind.

Unused gantries and docks in Long Island City.

Longshoremen from left, Jorge Aguillar, Manny Ferreras, Anthony Falchiccio, Tony Perlstein and Virgil Maldenado outside Global Docks. They all stood for election on an anti mafia ticket, and were all elected.