donderdag, november 06, 2003
Nermina Nuhodzic is an 18-year-old photographer from Bosnia-Herzegovina. She spent several years of her childhood living through civil war. Twenty-two members of her family were killed over the course of two nights. Now, she spends time walking the streets of her city, taking pictures of the changing lives of people in Sarajevo. One of her photographs shows an elderly woman hunched down on the side of the street, begging. Two young women are passing by, talking happily. They don't seem to notice the older woman.
Ms. Nuhodzic says she shot the picture spontaneously, but it shows a deeper rift between the past and future, a story that is not being told about recovering from war. "I grew up as a child in a war and lived as a refugee many years outside of Bosnia, and then I came back and I feel like I'm not heard enough," she says. "That the people don't know what happened to the kids that grew up in this cruel war, and nobody actually did care."
A collection of her black-and-white photographs is on display along with artwork from other children and teenagers in Sarajevo, Lukavica and New York, in a show called "Aftershocks: Art and Memoirs on Growing Up in the Aftermath."
Bron: VOA.
Ms. Nuhodzic says she shot the picture spontaneously, but it shows a deeper rift between the past and future, a story that is not being told about recovering from war. "I grew up as a child in a war and lived as a refugee many years outside of Bosnia, and then I came back and I feel like I'm not heard enough," she says. "That the people don't know what happened to the kids that grew up in this cruel war, and nobody actually did care."
A collection of her black-and-white photographs is on display along with artwork from other children and teenagers in Sarajevo, Lukavica and New York, in a show called "Aftershocks: Art and Memoirs on Growing Up in the Aftermath."
Bron: VOA.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 23:18
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