Andrew Testa
Panos Pictures
London, United Kingdom
Born London, United Kingdom, 1965
After spending most of the 1990’s documenting the environmental protest movement in the UK, Andrew moved to Kosovo in 1999 to cover the ongoing war and it’s aftermath.
He spent 6 years living in Kosovo, covering the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Newsweek and others. After a further 5 years in New York, he now lives in London with his wife and two children.
His work has won many awards including three World Press Photo Awards. He has twice been named photojournalist of the year by Amnesty International, in 1999 for his coverage of the war in Kosovo and in 2007 for his work on acid attacks in Bangladesh. In 2006 he was awarded a Getty Grant for Editorial photography for his work in Kosovo. He has also won awards from Pictures of the Year (2001, 2004 & 2005), the NPPA Best of Photojournalism (2006 & 2008).
He was a participant in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in 1998
2006 - World Press Photo, 2002 - World Press Photo, 1994 - World Press Photo, 2006 - Amnesty International Award , 2000 - Amnesty International
- Editorial
- Portrait
- Reporting
Brexit
Andrew Testa
Colin Hewlett with his wife in the house they rent in Wigan. He says that he now earns less than half what he was earning over a decade ago. He now has to find work through an agency that bans trade union membership and he works on a zero hours contract. He voted to leave because he believes for him things cannot get any worse.
