Photographer Anja Niedringhaus' first experience of war photography came during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Here we present a selection of her pictures from the besieged city of Sarajevo. You can read an interview with her by following the link below this gallery.

Anja Niedringhaus: "I was on my way back from the airport in Sarajevo in 1995 and by chance I noticed this old man who was smoking a cigarette while sitting in the wreckage of a bus. It was as though he was sitting on a park bench somewhere in a nice place rather than in a city under siege."

"People tried to carry on as usual and sometimes musicians arrived from the local orchestra to play in the streets. They were guarded by Bosnian soldiers throughout the concert, which only took place for 30 minutes because of security concerns."

"Here a woman and her son take cover behind a concrete wall erected to protect them from incoming sniper fire. What strikes me is that you can see the fear in the woman’s face, while her young son reacts like he was part of a game of hide and seek."

“Bosnian soldiers move out to positions overlooking Sarajevo. On their shoulders they wear coloured tags; I remember that day they were yellow. This was to distinguish them from the Serb army soldiers who were wearing the same uniforms."

"People tried to bury the bodies of their friends but the ceremony could not be held at the cemetery as they were in view of a sniper, so they took the bodies in their makeshift coffins to a spot where a building provided protection."