What effect can pictures from situations of war and conflict really have? Whom do they reach? And what happens in those places once the media attention has been withdrawn?
Since 2010, Bosnian photojournalist Ziyah Gafić has been cataloguing objects that are the last witnesses to the existence of the approximately 30,000 people who are still missing from the Bosnian war: personal possessions and everyday things that have been exhumed from mass graves and still serve, two decades after the conflict, to identify the dead. Gafić’s visual archive will make it easier for survivors to search for their relatives and, despite the sober nature of the presentation, will enable viewers to identify with the victims.
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