There is some stories that city can tell better than people. They are hidden in urban scenes, signs and symbols, in messages on the walls, sculptures, architecture, and cultural landscape.
Photographs from Pristina, capital city of Kosovo, once part of Serbia, depicting similarities and diversity between two nationalities, once lived as neighbors, drinking coffee together, enjoying in prosperity and happiness.
These are urban scenes of city with colorful history, multiethnic population, and post conflict atmosphere.
New borders are set, and huge gap was made between people, but similarities are still present, beside scars from war and all ethnic differences.
As a part of large trilingual, three faze project, started in collaboration between two cultural organizations from Serbia and Albania, these photos where made in journalist-research and documentary faze of the project. Later, in a second faze of the project, they were exhibited on large scale prints as reportage from Kosovo, on exhibition “Views: Personal histories of Serbs and Albanians” in “Museum of contemporary art of Vojvodina”, and in “Multimedia center of Pristina”, beside audio material from interviews. In final faze of project, they were included, as documentary material, in making of the theater performance “Patriotic Hypermarket”, that was played in “Bitef” Theater in Belgrade, as well as on tour in ex Yugoslav countries, and whose whole crew were from countries that used to be part of one big country before civil war.
some of the photos from collection: http://nikolabradonjic.com/albums/ko/
About the presenterNikola Bradonjic
Freelance photographer from Serbia, now based in NYC. Mainly work as theater and documentary photographer, and recently start working as fashion photography as well. I was member and founder of few art collectives in Serbia, and collaborate on international projects. www.nikolabradonjic.com