" I’ve come to the hospital to photograph a wounded young girl. Her doctor has asked me to help get the United Nations to evacuate her. Her injuries are horrible. She is in a coma and she will die soon. But she is tying up badly needed medical resources now. "Sorry about the blood on the sheets", says a nurse and puts a plastic doll in the little girl's limp hand. It's late afternoon and the soft light coming through the plastic where the windows used to be is fading. "It will be too dark in a few minutes", I tell myself, trying to overcome the numbing pain so I can do something. Do something? Do what? I want to stroke the little girl's cheek. Tell her she will be all right. Make everything all right. I want to curl up on the floor and cry. I want it all to go away. But it will never go away. So I do what I always do. I absorb yet another dose of it. I expose a few frames of film and myself to every nuance of the horror of a child torn apart by shrapnel. The photograph is grotesquely beautiful. I have turned a scream into music." - Morten Hvaal - Sarajevo, 1993.
Five-year-old Irma Hadzimuratovic lies seriously injured in a Sarajevo hospitial on August 5 1993. She was injured by a Bosnian Serb mortar shell 6 days ago which killed her mother and 14 others in a market square in Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo.
A Bosnian Army soldier walks past a mannequin used to try and draw fire from Bosnian Serb Army positions in Sarajevo on June 10, 1992.
A wounded Bosnian ambulance driver is carried into a building in Sarajevo's Dobrinja suburb by Bosnian government fighters on June 24, 1992. He was driving one of three ambulances that came under fire from Bosnian Serb positions.
Bosnian government soldiers engage Bosnian Serbs in house to house fighting in Sarajevo on June 24, 1992. The Dobrinja neighbourhood was built to house athletes for the 1984 winter olympic games.
Bosnian government fighters run under fire on Sarajevo's front line on December 2, 1992.
Bosnian government soldiers engage Bosnian Serbs in house to house fighting in Sarajevo on June 24, 1992. The Dobrinja neighbourhood was built to house athletes for the 1984 winter olympic games.
A young female member of the Bosnian Army fires a vintage Thompson sub-machine gun at Bosnian Serb Army positions in Sarajevo's Dobrinja suburb on June 30, 1992.
Squadron leader Carl Harding, of Britain's RAF Regiment and a United Nations Military Observer jumps out of a Bosnian police car at Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital after bandaging and escorting an elderly man who was wounded by mortar fire on September 29, 1992.
A family cries as they identify one of their own in the morgue at Sarajevo's Kosevo hospital on January 7, 1993.
Two Bosnian government fighters sing and play accompanied by heavy incoming artillery bombardment in Sarajevo's frontline suburb Dobrinja on June 24, 1992. Samir Muratbegovic (L),
Members of the Bosnian government Army's female unit, the "Bluebird Brigade" at their bombed-out base near Sarajevo on October 10, 1992. Many of the women in the unit are widows of soldiers who have died in the war.
A young Bosnian government fighter pauses at a makeshift graveyard in Sarajevo on June 30, 1992. Several of his comrades are buried here.
A Bosnian Army sniper armed with a Dragunov rifle looks past a portrait of the late Yugoslav leader Joseph Tito in his position in a Sarajevo office building on June 19, 1992.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (right) listens to his top commander, general Ratko Mladic outside their Pale headquarters on Thursday, August 5, 1993.
A man looks for a missing friend or relative among newly arrived corpses in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo morgue on December 15, 1992.
Bosnian government soldiers sit in a frontline position on the perimeter of the besieged capital Sarajevo on May 23, 1993.
A man gathers rainwater from a puddle in the street in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo on November 28 1993, while a block of flats burns from artillery shelling in the background. 350,000 Sarajevans have lived mostly without water, electricity and gas since April 1992.
Bosnian civilians run across Sarajevo's notoriously dangerous "Sniper Alley" on November 29, 1992.
A Bosnian government soldier sits in a frontline position on the perimeter of the besieged capital Sarajevo on May 23, 1993.
Mourners of several religions at the improvised funeral of two Muslims in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo on December 9, 1993. Funerals can often not take place in the regular cemeteries due to incoming sniper and artillery fire.
Two Bosnian men grieve at a friend's grave in a makeshift cemetery in a soccer field in Sarajevo on December 10, 1993.
A Bosnian woman cries as she touches her son's grave in Sarajevo's Lion's cemetery on August 23, 1994.
A boy walks through a cemetery on his way to school in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo on September 10, 1994.
