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Remembering Paul Lowe
16 October 2024
British photojournalist Paul Lowe was fatally stabbed on a hiking trail n the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. His teenage son, who he had not returned home after more than two months and struggled with his mental health, has been arrested for murder, according to police.
Lowe was born in London and grew up in Liverpool. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in history and philosophy then earned a vocational degree in documentary photography in 1988 at the University of Wales, Newport, formerly the Gwent College of Higher Education.
He worked as a photojournalist in over 80 countries from the until the 2000s. The first major story he covered was the fall of the Berlin Wall. He also covered Nelson Mandela's release from prison, the Romanian revolution and famine in Africa.
In the 1990s, he covered the Balkan wars and the aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia. He cataloged his images from that period in Bosnians, a book published in 2005.
Lowe's images were also published in Time, Newsweek, Life and The Sunday Times Magazine, among other publications.
During the siege of Sarajevo, he focused on the daily life of the city's residents as it was being blockaded by the Yugoslav Army and the Bosnian Serb Army from 1992 to 1996.
"During the siege, I really tried to document the lived experience of the citizens of Sarajevo," he said. "Their resilience, their creativity, their courage, their humor and their energy in the face of the incredible aggression."
Recently he worked as a scholar of the history and ethics of photography at the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London. He was also a contributing photographer and educator at the VII Foundation, which trains visual journalists from communities that are underrepresented in the media.
He has published several books, including Behind the Camera (2016), 1001 Photographs You Must See In Your Lifetime (2017), A Chronology of Photography (2018) and Photography Rules (2020).
He met his wife Abadzic in 1992 when she was a reporter for Reuters. They married in 1995 and had two sons.