{"id":1731,"date":"2023-05-09T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzej.doc.ba\/uncategorized\/15-godina-jim-marshall\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T11:57:31","slug":"15-godina-jim-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzej.ba\/en\/15-godina-jim-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"15 years by Jim Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201dIn the spring of 1996, I took photographs around Sarajevo with a not very good Nikon 35\u00a0mm film camera. In the spring of 2011, I took the same shots from the exact same locations with a\u00a0not very good Nikon DSLR camera. The photographs from 1996 were taken just after the\u00a0handover of Grbavica, when you could still clearly see and feel and smell the effects of the\u00a0siege on the city. And yet there was a sense of hope, a sense of freedom. People were planning\u00a0to visit the coast for the first time in five years, determined to get there even if they had to walk.\u00a0Children played on Vilsonovo, their parents making sure they stayed on the right side of the\u00a0mine warning tape stretched all along the river bank. The gardens of cafes were overflowing, junctions\u00a0were open spaces, all the barricades were gone. There was no more need to run, no more need\u00a0to hide. The photographs from 2011 are of a city transformed. There are few remaining signs of\u00a0the siege, just the pockmarks and perhaps the word \u201cshelter\u201d scrawled on walls. Otherwise,\u00a0bombed out buildings and blown out windows were now reconstructed and reborn as apartments,\u00a0offices and hospital wards. The children who play on Vilsonovo avenue know these\u00a0buildings and streets only as they are now. But many of their parents, including me, the photographer, often say: \u201cNothing changes, nothing improves, everything is the same.\u201d The\u00a0combined photographs show that enormous changes and improvements have occurred over the last\u00a015 years. They illustrate the wonder of the human spirit. They indicate that Sarajevo\u2019s future is\u00a0not preordained but can be shaped and always improved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t