Born in Great Britain, now lives and works in Sarajevo. Paul Lowe is an award-winning freelance photographer and teacher living and working between Sarajevo and London. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Life, Der Spiegel, The Observer and The Independent amongst others. His book, 'Bosnians', documenting 10 years of the war and post war situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was published in April 2005.

Major stories include: British involvement in Northern Ireland; End of the Cold War, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Revolution in Romania, German Reunification; Release of Nelson Mandela; Everyday life in Beirut; Civil war in Yugoslavia; The aftermath of the Soviet Nuclear test programme; Famine and civil war in Somalia; Diamond mining in Angola; The siege of Sarajevo; War in Grozny; Massacre in Rwanda; Famine in Sudan 1998; Orangutans in Borneo; Orbis blindness program in Cuba.

Winner of Nikon News photographer and Photo essay of the Year, 1989, winner of Nikon Features Photographer 1990; winner of The Journalist prize for Photography 1989. Second place Magazine photographer of the year in POY1993 First place Global news picture for Grozny POY 1996;Winner of World Press Photo for General News and Nature and the Environment in 1992, Second place in spot news in 1995 for Grozny and 96 for Rwanda. UK Magazine Photographer of the Year 1998. Awarded the Vic Odden prize for an outstanding achievement by a British photographer under 35 by the Royal Photographic Society. 2nd place people in the news in World Press 2000 for pictures of the missing in Bosnia.

The book:

The presence of death is felt in Paul Lowe's photographs: war and its terrors are evoked in images notable for their stillness, reminding us that exploding buildings and screaming faces are only the most obvious ways of showing devastation. But here is life too, for the Bosnians have survived, mourned and moved forward. Lovers, harvesters, old men, rambunctious children and fashionable boulevardiers populate this book, as do images of snowy fields, rebuilt bridges, and parties.

The accompanying text includes commentary by veteran BBC correspondent Allan Little, as well as a number of acute observations from various Balkan writers and newsmakers (along with anonymous graffiti), and deftly supplements the visual power of this work by a still-young photojournalist at the height of his powers. 'Bosnians', by Saqi publishing, London, 2005 (172 pages, black and white hardback).

Scars' exhibition:

Civilians sprint across an intersection under sniper fire; a couple embrace lovingly on a terrace overlooking Sarajevo; the body of an old man is exhumed from a shallow grave whilst his daughter looks on; a refugee returns to his home for the first time in eight years.

The presence of death is felt in Paul Lowe's photographs: war and its terrors are evoked in images notable for their stillness, reminding us that exploding buildings and screaming faces are only the most obvious ways of showing devastation. But here is life too, for the Bosnians have survived, mourned and moved forward.

The photographs document 10 years of the suffering and rebirth of Bosnia, tracing the horrors of the war and post war reconstruction, but also the spirit and tenacity of it's people, and their utter refusal to give up their humanity in the fact of appalling evil.