This was really *the* D-day for about 114 roma families who lived at both sides of the river. It’s actually quite sad when you think you actually had a couple of friends over there. Now they’re scattered all over Belgrade and Serbia.
Sanja’s photos might give you a clue of what the atmosphere was like.
“ Aside from the atrocities they depict, as photographs,
the images from Abu Ghraib contradict
the studied heroics of twentieth-century
war photography that have been updated to
the current conflict. Away from the photojournalistic
flourishes designed to make war palatable—the
heroic flag-raisings, the dogged foot
soldiers close to the action, the sense of shared
humanity among combatants, and the search
for visual evidence that war is universal and inevitable—the
often-banal JPEGs from Iraq proffer
a very, different picture: war is systematic
cruelty enforced at the level of everyday torture. ”
—How p&s photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (taken in 2005) redefine war photography. [see the original]
