For his gallery, Tomislav Georgiev covered two protests early in 2007 by ethnic Albanians in Pristina, Kosovo. The protestors want full independence from Serbia.

During the first, two protestors were killed when police opened fire with rubber bullets. The second, a few weeks later, saw renewed confrontations but no fatalities.

Calling themselves “Self Determination”, the Kosovo-Albanians see a draft U.N. proposal on the province's future as ignoring their drive for independence and catering to the small Serbian minority in the province.

Kosovo's Prime Minister, Agim Ceku, has denounced the protestors’ leaders as “bearers of anarchist-revolutionary ideas."

Currently employed with the weekly newspaper Fokus, Tomislav – who lives in Skopje, Macedonia and has won several photographic awards and grants in that country – says he tried not to take sides in the dispute he was covering.

“I try to put my unique mark on the photos. I used humor and the final image shows dolls brought by protestors as part of a mock protest-within-a-protest, which were abandoned when it was all over.”

“To photograph this kind of event you don’t always have to go for blood,” says Tomislav.