Amanda Rivkin

Postwar Bosnia Reconstruction

  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man carries his bag into the train station, built during the socialist era, and now in the shadow of the Avaz Tower designed by architect Faruk Kapidzic for Bosnian media mogul and former Bosnian nationalist presidential candidate Fahrudin Radoncic on October 17, 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A woman pushes a stroller passed election posters for the Union of Social Democrats ahead of October 12 national elections on October 8, 2014.
  • NEAR SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Train conductors Sakib Buzo, 53, and Izet Golubic, 51, drive the train to Doboj from the train station in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 20, 2014. Buzo and Golubic said they used to drive routes to Belgrade before the war but those were discontinued after the 1992-1995 conflict and routes to cities like Banja Luka inside the Republika Srpska, one of two entities in the present day divided Bosnia and Herzegovina, were discontinued in only the last few years as Serbian nationalism has been on the rise.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man casts his ballot in Bosnia's elections in a school classroom on October 12, 2014. With 92 political parties and a tripartite presidency shared between a Serb, a Croat and a Bosniak, Bosnia's political system has been dubbed one of the most complex on earth.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A statue of Josip Broz Tito, the longest serving leader of communist Yugoslavia, stands in the middle of the campus of the University of Sarajevo on October 28, 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. (At right) Andrea Dautovic, 57, a museum adviser and librarian in charge of the exchange of publications, retrieves the key to the ethnographic section of the shuddered Bosnian National Museum from a colleague in the courtyard garden on October 15, 2014. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012 after employees had worked one year without salaries, many of whom continue to work without salaries to this day; the Bosnian National Museum is short the minimum 700,000-800,000 Euro it would need to keep its doors open.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Empty display cases in the archeology section of the Bosnian National Museum which museum keepers said were emptied for the safekeeping of artifacts on October 15, 2014. The museum closed its doors on October 4, 2012 after employees had worked one year without salaries, many of whom continue to work without salaries to this day; the Bosnian National Museum is short the minimum 700,000-800,000 Euro it would need to keep its doors open.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. (L-r) Makeup artists Esefa Zornic, 30, touches up news anchor Marina Ridjic, 28, just before going on air on Al Jazeera Balkans in the BBI Center, which was designed by architect Sead Golos, on October 10, 2014. Qatari-financed Al Jazeera Balkans launched in November 2011 and is an anchor tenant of the BBI Center.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. People walk passed a building that shows a lack of certainty with regard to the facade's colors and windows on October 11, 2014. As Sarajevo was restored after the 1992-1995 siege according to private property regulations as opposed to the previous state order which allowed for less dissonance and continuity of styles.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Friends share a moment looking at cell phone pictures in front of a dessert shop in the old city on October 11, 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Serbian Orthodox arishoners line up to kiss the cross during Sunday mass at the Nativity of Theotokos - Mother of God Serbian Orthodox Cathedral on October 12, 2014. Many said they feel unwelcome in postwar Sarajevo and were either too old or too poor to move to the Republika Srpska.
  • VISEGRAD, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A man waves a Serbian flag as part of a wedding procession through the streets on October 18, 2014. Visegrad was ethnically cleansed by the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992-1995 conflict; a plaque on the statue beside the cafĂ© in the background states, {quote}Monument to defenders of the Republika Srpska from the grateful people of Visegrad{quote}.
  • VISEGRADSKA BANJA, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A young Bosnian Serbian couple celebrates their wedding in the restaurant at the Vilina Vlas Hotel on October 18, 2014. The Vilina Vlas Hotel was used as a rape and torture facility during the Bosnian conflict of 1992-1995 by the Bosnian Serb Army and Serb paramilitaries against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Sephardic Jews pray in the Ashkenazi Synagogue on shabbat on October 17, 2014. Jewish community leader Jakob Finci (second from right) placed the number of Jewish people left in Sarajevo at 700; part of the Shabbat service is in Ladino, an old dialect of Spanish that Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 took with them to their new homes across the Mediterranean world.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Women pray on the upper level in the small section partitioned for them in the Wahhabi King Fahd Mosque, designed by Faruk Kapidzic, during Friday prayers and Herzegovina on October 10, 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Architect Ivan Straus, 86, one of the star architects of the former Yugoslavia responsible for designing the Holiday Inn Sarajevo as well as Sarajevo's Twin Towers, sits in his living room at the dining room table on October 13, 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Children ride the escalators for entertainment at the massive Saudi-owned Sarajevo City Center mall designed by architect Sead Golos on October 16, 2014. Alcohol is not served in any of the mall's restaurants due to the mall's Saudi ownership, to the objections of the architect.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Meho Zekic, 72, and {quote}the butcher{quote} play chess with oversized pieces at a park on October 23, 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Men in a VW bus drive across the river into the city center on a Friday night on October 17, 2014.
  • ULCINJ, MONTENEGRO. The mother of bride Arnela Koluh, 23, of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, places a red scarf over her head as part of the traditional Bosniak wedding ceremony before entering the Pomerac Mosque on October 26, 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A view of the Miljacka River which runs through Sarajevo from the Austro-Hungarian Jajce Barracks on October 14, 2014. The Jajce Barracks were in use by the Yugoslav Army until 1992 and have fallen into a serious state of disrepair first due to the siege from 1992-1995 and then due to lack of care in the period after the war; at one point an investor thought to make a hotel out of the property but due to its unresolved status as military property, which falls under the jurisdiction of no other state agency, this did not happen.
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