Andrew Testa, winner of a Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography, has recently completed his project entitled New Beginning for Kosovo.

In his project summary, Testa writes, “With Kosovo’s widely expected independence delayed by Russian opposition and bogged down in diplomatic wrangling, I set out to make a portrait of this tiny corner of Europe, a province of Serbia, but under the jurisdiction of the United Nations, it’s population of two million besieged by power cuts and water shortages, its infrastructure in tatters and it’s financial institutions and businesses unable to function normally due to it’s unclear status.”

He continues, “During the three trips that I made with the grant money I had a mantra running through my head; it came from a long ago review of Waiting for Godot that described it as ‘a play in which nothing happens, twice.’  This seemed to me to be the perfect summation of Kosovo at that time, a place in limbo, a country in waiting that was completely hamstrung by the fact that it was not actually a country.”

See Andrew’s finished photo essay at Getty Images.

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