Powerful images depicting the tragedy of Kosovo are going on show as part of the Inside:Outside exhibition in the North Transept of York Minster from Tuesday.

An ethnic Albanian villager looks through a bullet hole in a bus window in Lapusnic, 20 km south-west of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo

Ardita Hajdini, a nine-year-old ethnic Albanian girl, weeps after losing contact with her family during the Kosovar troubles last year

Three ethnic Albanian women comfort each other during the funeral of four murdered relatives in Grajkovac, 60 km north west of Pristina, in March

The exhibition features a series of pictures taken by Reuters photographers under the title Kosovo Through The Reuters Lens.

And the other half of the exhibition, Conflict Through The Eyes Of Children, comprises photographs taken by children living in conflict zones including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Kenya, Kosovo, Liberia and Rwanda.

Inspired by the results of a photo workshop for children in Chechnya, a former photographer turned aid worker, Martin Klegnowski Kennedy, began delivering disposable cameras to young victims of conflict around the world under the banner Visual Impact.

He said: "Apart from, obviously, losing friends and relatives, one of the things people lose during conflicts are pictures of their family."

The pictures are said to have built up a moving and challenging testimony of the experiences of children caught up in war.

One of the Reuteurs photographers, Yannis Behrakis, who took the haunting picture of an ethnic Albanian peering through shattered glass, said: "Our photographers have shown the human suffering on both sides and with our cameras we are your eyes."

Brigadier Peter Lyddon, chapter clerk at the Minster, said: "We are looking forward to this exhibition opening."

It will run until January 30.

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