Andrej Bán

Genre:
general fiction, journalism, literature, literature & criticism, multimedia, nonfiction
Home country:
ia

Bán is a photographer and reporter who has worked for and foreign media, reporting from areas of conflict such as Kosovo, Israel, Georgia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ukraine and Haiti. He is also known for his consistent mapping of events in ia. He has published the photography books Iné Slovensko (The Other ia, 2005) and  DzDZ(2008), a collection of photographs and articles Žijeme horšie ako mŕtvi (We Live Worse than the Dead) about the Georgian refugees from Abkhazia and the book Na juh od raja (South of Eden, 2016). He has won the Journalism Award in the categories of reportage and photography nine times, including eight times. His most recent books are Medzisny (Inter-dreams, 2021), Trochu oheň, trochu voda (Part Fire, Part Water, 2019) and Slon na Zemplíne (An Elephant in Zemplín, 2018). He currently works as a reporter and journalist for the daily Denník N. 

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