Donji Kukuruzari towards Hrvatska Kostajnica

Petrinja towards Donji Kukuruzari

We drove towards Sisak and from there we went to Petrinja and took the road towards Donji Kukuruzari. The landscape is beautiful; lots of small hills and valleys. Some of the villages are completly renewed and the houses look very nice. Especially the tradional wooden houses which somewhat look like Swiss challets but quite a bit smaller and narrow without the typical large balcony.
In a couple of villages the situation remains that there are quite a lot of ruins and a couple of renewed houses. I spoke to some guys who were chopping wood for their fireplace. One of them told me that an old neighbour past away after just rebuilding his house. He didn't have any relatives so it's really hard to say what will happen to the house. He guessed it will probably become a ruin again after a while. His own house is still in the making. Without money they are all trying to make the best out of it.

New pictures from Zagreb towards Sunja and Hrvatska Kostajnica

Today was a rainy day. I travelled from Zagreb and worked from Sisak towards Sunja and Hrvatske Kostajnice and photographed the many ruins which are still standing.

Second day Jasenovac

Yesterday I went back to Jasenovac to complete the picture series. There were a few people around the village and a couple of kids playing.

Arrived in Zagreb / Photographed in Jasenovac

This week I arrived in Zagreb. I must say it's a wonderful and inspiring city.

Yesterday the first trip was made to photograph around Sisak working towards Jasenovac which is near the Bosnian border. Bellow you'll find the new ruins for the database.
Jasenovac is a small village which is known because of the concentration camps in WO II. There are people living there but half of the village is still destroyed.
Tomorrow my starting point will be Jasenovac and I'll drive down to Hrvatska Kostajnica and Bosanska Kostajnica. A small town on the Croatian and Bosnian border.

Trip to Zagreb

Today I'm preparing everything for the trip to Zagreb. Tomorrow I'll be leaving
Arnhem with Suzanne Valkenburg (my travel compagnion). We'll be flying from Koln
directly to the capital city of Croatia. Where we will be staying at a friends house.
I'm planning to visit the MK gallery and David Maljkovic to present them my work.

Works - a week before the exhibition

Yesterday I decided that I'm going to add a small portrait of
two people I met during my last trip.
It's a couple from Serbia, they used to work and live in the
area of Stankovci. He was a truck driver, driving allong the
coast back and forth to Dubrovnik.
They told me that they worked all summer long to pay an aluminium
door to their house. They want to come back but in winter it's
to cold for them to stay and they leave for Beograd. All of their
children live there. Their house is partially renovated by the
EU project. Only 45 m2 of what used to be 150 m2. Her mother
came with them to, they take care of her. They are sad that their
house still isn't finished and that it costs so much money to
finish it. But they are also happy to be back.

Today

Today I created this Blog as an adition to the Rusevine Archive.
It's main prupose is to keep people informed about the project,
bringing news and updates.
On the 17th of March I'll be flying to Zagreb for a full week of
photography in and around Karlovac. A city nearby Zagreb, where
there was a lot of fighting during the war.
During this week I'm planning to keep a diary on this blog. You
will find information about my trip; which route I took and who
I met and spoke to.
Feel free to send an email or leave a message with your reaction
about the project or if you have information which you want to
share.

Exhibition at the Amsterdam Centre for Photography - 13th of march

I would like to invite you for the opening to my latest exhibition
on the 13th of March in ACF / Amsterdam Centre for Photography
opening : Saturday, 13th of March from 17:00 to 19:00 pm

Rusevine is a growing database of photographed ruins, videos and sound
fragments from the former by war devestated areas of Croatia

The exhibition is opened for visitors untill April the 3rd, every Thursday untill Saturday from 13.00 till 17.00 pm
The adress : Bethaniënstraat 39
Click on the link to find out more details:
http://www.acf-web.nl/

17/04 untill 26/04 Photographing around Karlovac

There is a new trip coming up this month.
From the 17th untill 26th I'll be photographing
in a new area for the database.
I'm flying to Zagreb and staying there for a couple
of days. From Zagreb the trip will leed to Karlovac
and the surroundig area.