Drops Against Oblivion (or Looking For The Lost Homeland)

This is my story about one divided country that is trying to break some firm divisions in the world.

Why is it that BORDERS and NATIONALITY, and not FREEDOM, shape the IDENTITY of most of the people on this planet? Everyone is born somewhere. It's not something you deserved, made or gained. How is it then that the pure coincidence of being born in one country leads all too often to a situation where you're ready to kill someone just because that person doesn't belong to your tribe, nation, country or religion.

I was born in BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA and as a 9 year old girl I was forced to leave it as a REFUGEE. War was for me then the game of adults, a game no one could explain to me in a way I could understand. I generally feel free from some borders that people, wars, and history have shaped. Rootless would be the closest picture of my concept of national identity and if any place defines me as a person it would be planet Earth, not any particular country.

The WAR in Bosnia and Herzegovina finished 20 years ago. And it’s not just marks of the war that you can see everywhere, like holes in the walls, it’s about the war that is still happening in the heads of the people. Towns are still divided and people are divided with their national identities.

I want that to CHANGE and my only weapon is my CAMERA. I came back to Bosnia and Herzegovina as a photographer and was shooting THE LIVING and THE DEAD country, making portraits of PEOPLE in streets and on markets, and visiting CEMETERIES. And exactly there, on Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, and Partisan cemeteries I felt that I finally came home and found pieces of my country. Those places don’t call for new hate, revenge or more killing. Death makes everything even. If we can be the same in front of death, why can’t we be brothers and sisters while we’re still alive?

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