A photography exhibition titled “Through Their Eyes” by Frenchwoman Alize Le Maoult was opened yesterday in Sarajevo.
The exhibition displayed 46 portraits of war photographers from nine countries and 17 cities in the period September 2013 – June 2014.
On this occasion, photographer and author of the exhibition Alize Le Maoult told FENA that she started photographing war photojournalists in 2012, when they gathered in BiH on the occasion of 20 years since the start of the war in Bosnia.
“I started taking photographs of photojournalists because these meetings were very touching. During the war in Bosnia, which lasted three years, the population and the photographers “mixed with each other” and I think it was something unique and very emotional,” said Le Maoult.
She wanted, says Le Maoult, to record emotions during their get-together in 2012 because she was so moved by what she saw when she returned to BiH.
“I was in Bosnia in 1995 because of the filming of the film by Ademir Kenović “Perfect Circle,” in which creation I participated. I went back several times since 1995, but this gathering was so emotional because some people have not seen each other for 20 years,” said Le Maoult.
“These photographers come from all over the world, but we do not know them, and that is why the exhibition is titled “Through Their Eyes”, said Le Maoult.
She added that she took the photos of photographers in front of walls “because it is a metaphor for cities that people have built and then they were destroyed in the wars.”
“I chose the walls also because the photographers and the population hid behind the walls, and these walls protected people,” said Le Maoult.
(Source: Fena/photo kameleon)
