Goran Tomasevic

Goran Tomašević (; born 1969), is a Serbian photographer. Working for The Globe and Mail since May 2022, he has spent more than 30 years travelling around the globe to cover the world's biggest stories.

Tomašević's award-winning pictures of wars and revolutions have become some of the most iconic images of the conflicts fought in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. His work includes photographic features from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, South Sudan, Mozambique, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Burundi, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, Honduras, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Vietnam, Pakistan, United States and sports coverage of the Olympics and soccer World Cups.

Career Tomašević began photographing the war that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1991 for daily newspaper Politika. In 1996 he joined the world's largest news agency, Reuters, covering the simmering political tensions in Kosovo and the anti-Milošević demonstrations in his hometown of Belgrade since mid-1990s. During three-month NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Tomašević was the only photographer working for foreign press to spend the duration of the conflict in Kosovo.

Tomašević moved to Jerusalem in 2002, covering the second Palestinian intifada. During the U.S. led invasions of Iraq in 2003, his picture of a U.S. Marine watching the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue became one of the most memorable images of the war.

Exhibitions In 2012, the Czech Photo Gallery in Prague held a six-week exhibition of Tomašević's war photography, depicting more than two decades of conflict. Further exhibitions were held at the Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents Club in 2014 and Perpignan, France during the Visa pour l’Image festival in 2006, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022.

Publications In 2022, a collection of Tomašević's work was published in a 444-page book from Edition with the title "Goran Tomašević". It was published in English, French and German. The plaudits for his work included the description "a wonderful Caravaggio of photography".