Michael first starting photographing in Former Yugoslavia in 1992 during the civil war when it was still just Yugoslavia. He later became a regular visitor and photographed daily life as well as many of the later upheavals such as the fall of President Milosevic. Our work from the region published widely including on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines,

Former Yugoslavia

Group of children sitting on benches in a room with large windows, some children are raising their hands or looking at the camera, sunlight streaming in through the windows.

A group of people, including two boys in black and white striped soccer jerseys, standing behind a rusty metal barrier at a construction site or scaffolding structure during daytime.

A large theater filled with an audience, with a man in a suit standing on stage in front of the crowd, raising his hand.

Paddy Ashdown in a black suit and purple tie walking along a rural mountain road in Bosnia with a black Audi behind him. In the background, several other people are near the car, with mountains and cloudy sky in the distance.

A person wearing a gas mask and backpack walking through a street filled with thick smoke, surrounded by parked cars and old vehicles, with shop signs visible in the background.

Libya & Chad / Across the Sahara

In 2004 Michael joined the first World Food Programme convoy to pass through Libya and cross the Sahara to bring food for Sudanese refugees living in camps in neighbouring Chad.

A truck transporting various supplies and goods through a desert landscape with sparse trees in the foreground and buildings in the background. A person riding a camel is visible to the right.

Aid trucks loaded with supplies in a desert with mountains in the background, and a person jumping from one truck to another.

A long exposure night time desert landscape with tire tracks in the sand, a flat-topped hill on the horizon, and a clear blue sky with faint star trails.

A praying young man standing in a room with a scenic mountain and lake mural on the back wall, with his hands clasped, dressed in loose clothing, surrounded by couches and a carpet.

A person riding a donkey through a foggy, desert landscape with sparse bushes and distant mountains.

A group of four people and a dog are seen near a large loaded truck on a dusty desert landscape with mountains in the distance. One person appears to be digging or inspecting the ground while the others observe.

In early 2003 the US and allies invaded Iraq. In response the Guardian sent four photographers to cover the story. Michael was one of them and was sent to Kurdish-held northern Iraq and travelled down the country as the Iraqi army withdrew. In the aftermath, he returned to photograph growing tensions and troubled attempts to rebuild.

Iraq / Invasion

Crowd of men praying outdoors on prayer mats amid a dusty, sunny day with buildings and palm trees in the background.

A group of five people, four women in black hijabs and one man in white traditional clothing, standing outside a weathered building entrance with a wooden frame.

Group of women, some wearing headscarves, gathered outdoors next to a blue truck, engaged in conversation.

Military personnel by their vehicles, as a family of civilians, including children and women, walk by on a rural road with more military vehicles and smoke rising in the background.

Group of armed men, some sitting and some standing, gathered outside a concrete structure with a partly open wall on a hillside.

People in traditional clothing gathering in a green park with tall trees.

Early on Boxing Day 2003 an earthquake, measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale, hit the city of Bam in south-eastern Iran killing an estimated 30,000 people. Michael travelled to Bam to photograph the aftermath.

Iran / Earthquake

A group of people wearing face masks standing outdoors in a prayer position with hands raised or clasped. They are gathered around a large, wrapped object lying on a cloth on the ground, which appears to be a body or a figure wrapped in white cloth.

A large mural of a smiling elderly man with a white beard and mustache, with an artistic background including clouds and flowers, is on a wall. Three people are walking in front of the mural, two women with headscarves and a man wearing a hat.

Rescue workers in orange uniforms searching through rubble and debris from a collapsed building.

A woman lying on a hospital bed with a colorful blanket in a room with brown curtains, a patterned rug, and large windows with curtains drawn to the sides.

Ruins of a destroyed building with debris and rubble, two Iranian flags on a signboard, and palm trees in the background.

As a London based photography agency, Troika has covered many domestic stories, both big, such as general elections and the remake of St Pancras, and small and quirky such as a cricket match on a periodically appearing sandbank on the Solent or open-air swimmers in the middle of winter with seemingly cold-proof consitutions.

United Kingdom

Inside St Pancras International train station with a high arched glass and steel roof, multiple train tracks, and a platform with passengers waiting and walking, two yellow and black trains on either side.

Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cheri, walking down the steps, flanked by a msmall crod on either side, outside of a building with a sign reading 'Millbank.' The crowd is clapping, with cameras and media personnel capturing the moment.

People walking and running on a beach during sunset with water reflecting the sky.

Police officers arresting a protester during a demonstration, with a group of bystanders observing.