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LIVING BEHIND BARS: What is happening behind bars and closed heavy iron doors of the prison cells? Is it like we used to see at the movies? Or not? Researching daily life of the prisoners at the famous Belgrade District prison, you can meet and feel energy of the other dimension. Where the piece of sky above the backyard is the only freedom prisoners can see. For a long time. Belgrade District prison is the biggest of that type at the Balkans, located couple of miles from Belgrade downtown. I made this story at the restricted cell block “5-1”, where prisoners are locked for 22 hours including two hours they can spend at the fresh air. This story showcase prison life without censored details, identities… Real life behind bars, as it is.
KARABURMA MY GHETTO: Some things do not look the way we want to see them. Or as they really are. They are sometimes raw, sometimes brutal, on the edge. Yet they are so true and full of life. Welcome to Karaburma, an area of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Although located only three miles from the city’s downtown, it is a hidden place with pleasant people and restless spirit, a place of great social diversity and a high crime rate. No wonder it was named “Little Columbia”. I was documenting the aesthetic of Karaburma’s street life for five years, trying to capture and present visual emotions of this part of Belgrade. Welcome to my personal Bronx.
LIFE IN LIMBO – A BOOK OF SCARS: This book was not easy to write. But it belongs to the sort you should own. Devoid of homesick sentimentality, this book is a simple attempt to analyze and list the things that really did happen, but which we would rather forget and give into the feeling of utter powerlessness. A book of scars that scratches old wounds. That is its purpose. Dealing with the past, with events which forever changed the fate and the life of the city in which the war in Croatia both began and ended. A case study which will ring true for all cities in former Yugoslavia that experienced the same fate. The fate of life in limbo. Good luck!
‘Once subversion has occurred, nothing can stop it’ is a piece of wisdom which best defines the dominant state of consciousness in this region for the last two and a half decades. If you compare the street aesthetics of (so-called) patriotism which prevailed in 1991 with its equivalent from 2017, you will realize how they are almost identical, the only nuances you can observe are the ones due to technological advances in the field of photography. Everything else has got even worse – a constant vortex of feedback dangerously slapping against clear conscience and consciousness at their last gasps. Woven together from a series of schizophrenic moments, the street aesthetics of patriotism never fails to surprise us with another, different dimension of its bottom. Serbian language only edition.