Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: yugoslavia

This is one of Suzi's, from our July/August 1999 trip to Kosova. I don't like to upload photos that aren't by me, but I've wanted to refer to this one a couple of times, and it just makes life so much easier to have it here! :) The kids in the photo lived around the house of Valon, our friend who looked after the whole bunch of we convoyers. Every morning they'd be first up, and waiting to pounce when we emerged, and we'd sit for a while drawing pictures, swapping language, and eventually these were the kids who I asked to paint their messages over the side of Truck, in reply to the messages painted on the other side by kids from Aberdeenshire.

Grainy ultra-zoom or ultra-ISO look, but it's actually just through Truck's windscreen. That's high-mileage dirt you're looking through! ;) The roses are part of a massive display of Albanian plastic flowers we had up around the screen for months — until the mean MoT man told me they'd have to go. We'd just got back from an(other) epic trip to Kosova, and I was dropping Suzi off. This was the first time I'd met her Mark. Anyway, I've been scanning yet more old prints to preserve them for posterity and this one has a certain something, so it made the "keep but don't upload" pile. And now I've changed my mind. Kosova trips catch your eye? More: www.aidconvoy.net/

A darkroom test strip, created (accidental art!) during the printing of this shot .

Mark & Karen examining Truck during the first major breakdown. We're on the way to FYROM (a.k.a. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) to deliver to camps of Kosovar refugees. We've made it as far as... France, when the prop-shaft falls off. We were saved by using my mobile phone to send an email to Radio 1, where Simon Mayo announced our plight. The guy who runs Norwich Union heard us and called his mate who runs the RAC. Their wonderful team in Lyon saved us. Really! www.aidconvoy.net

Some kids in the Skanderaj region of Kosova. We were thronged every time we stopped; fascinating weird foreigners, blundering through people still revelling in the joy of the end of the war. Notice the sneaky fag in one kid's hand. They were about 1DM a packet. www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a little Canon compact zoom, probably on Fuji 400 (from memory.)

I guess this never goes on the main roads any more; look closely, there's still a communist star on the number plate. (Found in Montenegro, while trying to work out which dirt track went into Albania! www.aidconvoy.net )

In Gjilane, south-east Kosova, where we'd just delivered equipment to the hospital. www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a snappy little Canon compact zoom, sorry about the dreadful scan from a cheap film scanner.

Strictly "The International Criminal Court of the former Yugoslavia", where we went to see Milosovich, in Den Haag. I still have the stamp – albeit on a piece of paper – in my passport. It was a clinical kind of place, but I still found it fairly moving to be at a place where all the things we'd seen and heard of in Kosova were finally being aired and, for a few people at least, drawn to a close.

A moment in truck's dining suite... www.aidconvoy.net/

We'd just arrived. We're standing on the edge of a bomb crater, trepidatious before entering the capital city just days after NATO stopped bombing. www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a little Canon compact zoom, probably on Fuji 400 (from memory.)

Jim Browning is an "adventurer", and a bit of a hero. Seen here with Suzi in Prishtinë, Kosova, in the midst of an unlikely and unplanned expedition to rescue truck from Albania. Jim hadn't been to Albania before, but nevertheless after we'd finished the aid delivery we were doing in Kosova, he agreed to take me across the mountains. My truck had been languishing there since dropping his propshaft just ouside Rubik. Six months on, and apart from the rats' nest in the heater he was basically okay. Made it as far as Bari in Italy before the improperly repaired prop fell off again, but we got him home and he did four convoys to Chernobyl after that :) Tales on www.aidconvoy.net Not sure which camera produced this, either the Pentax ME-Super or an ancient Nikon. Either would have had a 50mm lens and Kodak Tri-X or Plus-X.

Suzi with her new friend. I've shifted the colours a lot because my scanner went a bit crazy — what colour management? Taken on the old faithful Pentax ME-Super, 50mm.

I love this capture. It's in Rome airport, returning home without Truck after the epic weeks in Kosova (Kosovo) during July & August 1999. ( www.aidconvoy.net ) Taken with an old manual Nikon (can't remember which model) on Kodak Tri-X. You can also see a test strip from the darkroom, which I really like - accidental art! - here .