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Mahir Vranac
East Bosnia

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  • Ottoman bridge over River Drina in Visegrad, described by Ivo Andric in his nobel-prize winning book

    © Mahir Vranac
    BiH, Visegrad, 2009.
    Ottoman bridge over River Drina in Visegrad, described by Ivo Andric in his nobel-prize winning book "€žBridge over the Drina"€œ. Each May 26, hundreds of Bosnian Muslims made an emotional visit to the bridge to remember the killing there of 3,000 relatives and friends by Bosnian Serb and Serbian paramilitaries at the outbreak of Bosnia's 1992-95 war

  • Mothers of Srebrenica stand in front of buses with coffins of 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as they leave the town of Visoko for a joint burial July 9, 2009.

    © Mahir Vranac
    BiH, Visoko, 2009.
    Mothers of Srebrenica stand in front of buses with coffins of 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as they leave the town of Visoko for a joint burial July 9, 2009.

  • Names of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide listed at the graveyard in Potocari.

    © Mahir Vranac
    BiH, Potocari, 2009.
    Names of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide listed at the graveyard in Potocari.

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  • BiH, Visegrad, 2009.

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    BiH, Visegrad, 2009.

  • BiH, East Bosnia, 2009.

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    BiH, East Bosnia, 2009.


Mahir Vranac (mahirvara.wordpress.com) is a photojournalist from Visoko, BiH. He was born in 1985. He work as a freelance photojournalist, recording daily events in the territory of BiH. At the moment he is working on personal projects in BiH and continuing his photojournalist work.

East Bosnia, 2009. This story is about raising awareness among people about the second generation of the Bosnian Muslim population in eastern Bosnia, which has experienced war crimes during the war in Bosnia (1992-1995).

Eastern Bosnia is now the space of sadness and unpleasant memories, a living area of nationalism and cheap emotional manipulation, that the first “sting” the eyes, but also the space where the position of the victim attempts to convert the position of a dignified life.

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