Marta Vidal

I have written about a wide range of subjects, including birdwatchers, political prisoners, black flowers blooming in the desert and communities resisting mining projects. 

I am drawn to stories that highlight hope, beauty, and joy in the most unlikely places. My work focuses on resilience, courage, and kindness in contexts of violence, oppression and environmental degradation; on the ways people respond to adversity with creativity and resourcefulness, and on how oppressed and marginalised groups express defiance and resistance. 

I’m interested in telling stories that foster solidarity, engagement and accountability.

BUALA (4/2/2018)  “Foi a pimenta que fez Vasco da Gama atravessar os mares, da torre de Belém em Lisboa até à costa

MIDDLE EAST EYE (14/9/2017) Streets are dim and narrow in the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh, in southern Beirut. Walls are

LATTERLY MAGAZINE (6/11/2016) Life for Syrian refugees in Turkey is especially hard for children. Forced to leave their homes, interrupt their studies

BALKAN DISKURS (21/3/2016) Ron Haviv has spent almost 25 years documenting conflicts around the world, from the wars in Bosnia and Rwanda

BALKAN DISKURS (19/11/2015) In 1992, Vladimir Tomić was twelve years old when the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina started. He fled Sarajevo with his

BALKAN DISKURS (23/12/2015) “If you are looking for hell, ask the artist where it is. If you don’t find the artist, then

BALKAN DISKURS (25/1/2016) On 14 June 1992, 70 Muslim civilians were taken by a group of armed Serbs to a house on

GLOBAL VOICES (9/9/2015) Considered the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian

BALKAN DISKURS (13/1/2016)  Bosnia is a country of bridges: Sarajevo is famous for its 13 bridges, among them the well-known Latin Bridge