The Author

Ursula Meissner

Pictures change the world.

Ursula Meissner worked for the German television station „ZDF“ in Southeast Asia, before she exchanged her typewriter for a camera. In Afghanistan she got directly involved into the war for the first time. Since then she returned 15 times.

 

Photos out of conflict areas and war-zones

Her first photo report showed the siege of Sarajewo in August 1992. 15 years ago she started to travel to war- zones and conflict areas all over the world, where she works as a freelance photographer. From Afghanistan to Sierra Leone, from the Kosovo to Iraq: She shows the faces of the victims of military conflicts and humanitarian disasters. She received serveral awards for her pictures, which get published all over the world.

To get further information, please visit her website: www.ursula-meissner.de