Signs By The Roadside - After the outbreak of war in the Balkans, tens of thousands of people left Bosnia. More than 60,000 of these displaced people found a second home in Austria. I was one of them.
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\nThe wounds of the civil war are deep. If we look at the states of the former Yugoslavia today, ethnic tensions are omnipresent. In addition, the region is struggling under social and religious conflicts where memory and history have become a new battlefield.
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\nThe images in this book, organized into three image cycles, will take you through nearly 30 years of my work in the new states of the former Yugoslavia.
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\nWithout judgment or further explanation, these images are fragments of my reality. They do not follow any chronological sequence and do not claim to be complete. Events with positive and negative connotations alternate, collide and merge. Planes of partially incomplete photographic thoughts are linked together.
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\n Signs by the Roadside inhabits a space where the historical and political narratives that explain the country's past collide with the lived experience of an individual. Dealing with the repercussions of war - with all its layers - this book is not only a work that expands the mind and thus enlightens us, but also a mirror of reality.
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\nAlthough this book is still in the process of being published, it has already won several awards. It was notably a finalist for the renowned Mack First Prize 2020 and a finalist for the Prix du Livre des Rencontres d'Arles 2022.
