[wzslider autoplay=”true”]This Ramadan, the photographer Nisvet Porić from Bužim decided to take photos of mosques in Bužim in the iftar time, after the lights turn on. With a lot of work and effort, amazing results were achieved, and the photographs are fascinating.
Porić is spiritually bonded with mosques and he is fascinated with their beauty, architectural style and the way they are lightened.
“That beauty is especially emphasized in the month of Ramadan. When the Maghrib time comes, the lights turn on, marking the end of fasting on that day and sending the fasters a visual image that the iftar time has come. Because of those lights, the mosques are the most beautiful at night and, since I use Ramadan to take a break from work, I spend nights taking photographs of mosques, resting my soul, and at the same time wanting to show that beauty to all the people out there,” Porić says.
Porić highlights that all photographs were mostly taken in the evening hours, between 10 and 11 pm, and some of them before Maghrib time and the time when the lights go on.
“To make one such photograph, you must have good equipment and choose the right moment to take the photo. I use the second exposition, so that the time to take a photo lasts from ten second to several minutes, depending on how much light you want the photograph to take,” Porić explained the was the photographs are made.
Porić has been a photographer since the end of the war. In that period, he took countless author photographs with which he gave an immeasurable contribution to the culture of photographic memory over the past two decades, especially in the Bužim area. He is one of the authors of two documentaries: The truth about knights of Bužim and Bužim-proud Bosnian town.
In 2015, he participated in and worked on several projects that are important for BiH: documentary Survivors, documentary Diggers, web museum of the genocide www.srebrenica360.com, interactive map www.sarajevopodopsadom.com and the documentary Kušlat Mosque.
(Source: klix.ba/photo: Nisvet Porić)
