Between Life and Death:
Three days of my life in Sarajevo

Contents:

22 December 1997: The President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton, spoke to the people of Sarajevo in the National Theatre.

23 December 1997: On the evening of the next day, I came across a copy of Dzevad Karahasan's 'Diary of the Evacuation' and was struck by a passage on the city of Sarajevo, my home for the last twenty months.

24 December 1997: I awoke. I was in Sarajevo. Had I been at home in Switzerland, this day would be Christmas for me. But I could not conjure up any Christmas spirit this particular Christmas, 1997. Amidst the gloom and sadness of this 'Christmas Day', I walked through the cemeteries in and around Sarajevo.

Images: Photographs of the cemetries of Sarajevo contrasted with portraits of members of the Sarajevo Philhamonic Orchestra.

Portraits of dead people, capturing the span of life: surname, firstname, years of birth and death.
Photos triggering anger and sorrow, expressing memories.

Portraits of dead people, capturing the span of life: surname, firstname, years of birth and death.

Photos triggering anger and sorrow, expressing memories.

Photographs of life.
Portraits of members of the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra who fought to stay alive, to give people a reason to live a 'joie de vivre'.
Photo expressing hope.

Photographs of life.

Portraits of members of the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra who fought to stay alive, to give people a reason to live a 'joie de vivre'.

Photo expressing hope.