With the exhibition of war photographs ‘Sarajevo Nekad I Sad’ (Sarajevo Then and Now) by Šukrija Džidžović, today in the City Hall in Brussels 1 March, the Day of B&H Independence, will be marked. The Ambassadors of the European Community will take part.
Šukrija Džidžović was a witness with his camera in hand during the aggression on B&H from 1992-1995 in besieged Sarajevo. His war photographs have been shown in Sarajevo, Vienna, New York and Chicago.
During February this year, 20 years after the war, Šukrija stood with his camera in the same place from where he made his war photographs. This is why his exhibition is called Sarajevo Then and Now.
He said that during the war in besieged Sarajevo he made several thousand photo shots and in 1993 in Collegium Artisticum in Sarajevo, he hosted his first war exhibition called “Zaustavimo Barbare” (stop the barbarians).
‘’The demands of the project speak to the fact that during that time there was no electricity, photo chemicals and all that was needed for an exhibition, which was under shelling. Those several thousand recordings in the form of negatives were taken with me to New York in 1995. That was my only luggage when I went through the tunnel with my family’’, he recalls.
(Source: Fena)
