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Posts tagged ‘Sarajevo’
Never Forget
This one is for Srebrenica.
The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo.
1.5 million volumes and over 155,000 rare books were completely destroyed in 1992, during the Siege of Sarajevo.
Photographs are from a couple of years ago… There was an installation about the massacre at the Library in ruins; a timber boat full of old shoes and a portrait of him looking right into your eyes… And it was all very very quiet…
The remains of the minaret of the historic Pocitelj Mosque
“Let everything that’s been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing.”
A. Tarkovsky
I know it’s not the perfect quality, but I just love remembering that moment, and what it tells me.
She was wandering alone in a mosque in Sarajevo.
