Category: Civil Wars

Along the Rue de Lille, the city’s elegant stone façades are reduced to jagged shells, their roofs torn away and interior walls exposed to open sky. A mound of broken masonry spills into the street, while chimneys and fragmented upper stories stand like precarious markers of what once were homes and shops. The stillness of…

Above a tangle of summer growth and back-garden hedges, a tall church spire rises over tightly packed rooftops, antennas, and chimney pots—an ordinary skyline that becomes anything but ordinary in 1978. The title’s phrase, “You are now entering Free Derry,” evokes a contested threshold, where a neighborhood’s identity was asserted as much through words and…

Among the shattered arches of Sarajevo’s National Library, cellist Vedran Smailović sits amid rubble and dust, his dark suit stark against broken stone and exposed brick. The scene is both intimate and monumental: a single musician framed by a ruined cultural landmark, where collapsed masonry and torn plaster replace the usual hush of reading rooms…

Grief bends a mourner over a coffin wrapped in green cloth, her face hidden in white fabric as she clings to the smooth surface. A man’s hands hover protectively at her side, a small human gesture against an overwhelming loss. In the blurred background, more figures stand in silence, their presence forming a muted chorus…

Mud, torn clothing, and exposed bones sit at the center of a forensic excavation, where investigators in protective suits work methodically in an opened mass grave linked to the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995. Their careful posture—bending, brushing, and separating fragments from the soil—underscores the painstaking nature of exhumation, where every movement is meant to…

Snow lies thick across a Sarajevo cemetery, muting the landscape into a harsh white silence broken only by rows of grave markers. In the foreground, a bundled woman sits close to a headstone, her posture folded inward as if the cold and the loss have the same weight. The handwritten note or paper in her…

Arms linked and faces tight with concentration, two women hurry across a rubble-strewn street in Sarajevo’s notorious “Sniper Alley,” where a routine crossing could become a life-or-death gamble during the siege. The camera catches them mid-stride, leaning into each other for balance and nerve, while shattered pavement and scattered debris underline how war remade ordinary…

A child’s solemn gaze meets the camera while he licks an ice cream, his small body swallowed by a camouflage uniform cinched with an oversized belt. In his lowered hand sits a pistol that looks far too heavy for him, its dark shape contrasting sharply with the ordinary sweetness of the snack. The background falls…

Across a snow-covered field at Zetra Stadium in Sarajevo, rows of makeshift graves spread toward the city’s apartment blocks, turning a place built for sport into a landscape of mourning. Dark wooden crosses and simple markers puncture the white ground in dense clusters, the repetition becoming the story as much as any single headstone. In…

Kneeling in the churned earth of a Sarajevo cemetery, a woman presses a tissue to her eye, her headscarf framing a face tightened by grief. The fresh mound at her knees speaks to how recently the burial ended, while simple markers and scattered stones suggest a burial ground under strain. Behind her, onlookers stand in…