Alexandra Boulat
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Sarajevo. March 1996. A bosnian family portrait defaced with a knife by a Serb Nationalist. -
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Bosnia, Travnik. March 1991. Bosnian children playing in the old city Muslim's cemetery. -
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Croatia, Slavonia. August 1991. First check point in between Croats and Serb populations. -
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Croatia, Slavonia. August 1991. Croat soldier crying after defeat against Yougoslav Army in Erdut. -
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Croatia, Osijek. August 1991. Croat soldiers funerals. -
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Croatia, September 1991. A Croat drinks a beer after he attended to his friend soldier funerals. Croatian flag tattoo on his harm. -
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Vukovar, November 1991. Serb soldiers with a Yugoslavian flag. -
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Croatia, Vukovar. November 1991. Serb Army on patrol in Vukovar destroyed suburbs. -
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Croatia, Vukovar. November 1991. Serb Army on patrol in Vukovar destroyed suburbs. -
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Croatia, Vukovar. November 1991. Dead bodies on Vukovar streets. -
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Croatia, Vukovar. November 1991. Armed Serb civilians enjoy the fall of Vukovar after Yugoslav Army defeated the Croats and had the town under their control. -
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Croatia, Vukovar. November 1991. Yugoslav Army Doctors at work at the autopsy center set in a brick factory. -
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Croatia, Vukovar. November 1991. Armed Serb civilians enjoy the fall of Vukovar after Yugoslav army defeated the Croats and had the town under their control. -
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Croatia, Vukovar. November 1991. Serbs come back to Vukovar after the battle to pick up their belongings. -
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Croatia, Erdut. November 1991. Arkan, the Serb Paramilitary Commander (War Criminal assassinated in Beograd in January 2000) poses with a baby tiger and his soldiers. -
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Vitez, Bosnia. April 1993. Muslim prisoners held by Croats in a school. -
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Vitez, Bosnia. April 1993. Muslim prisoners held by Croats in a school. -
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Ahnici, near Vitez, Bosnia. April 1993. British UN troops patrol in Ahnici after the Croats destroyed the village and killed dozens of Muslims. -
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Vitez, Bosnia. April 1993. Body of a Bosnian muslim fighter. -
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Vitez, Bosnia. April 1993. A Muslim house torched by Croats. April 93. -
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Vitez, Bosnia. April 1993. An old lady crying after the Ahinici massacre. -
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Mostar, Bosnia. August 1993. Stary Most, the Otoman Bridge destroyed since. Bosnian Muslims tried to protect the bridge with rubber wheels against Croat shells. -
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Mostar, Bosnia. August 1993. In front of the hospital, a Muslim women who lost her brother. He was a Bosnian army soldier and died while fighting against the Croats. -
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Mostar, Bosnia. August 1993. Sniper's room. -
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Mostar, Bosnia. August 1993. Destroyed streets in the old town populated with muslims. -
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Eastern Mostar, Bosnia. August 1993. A soldier just heard about the death of his brother. -
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Sarajevo. October 1993. Sniper Alley under the rain. -
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Sarajevo. October 1993. Anti Sniper wall. -
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Sarajevo. October 1993. Demirovic family. The father cooks coffee in his apartment building stairs. -
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Sarajevo. October 1993. Market. -
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Sarajevo, hills. October 1993. A muslim women collects wood. -
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Grbavica.sarajevo. March 1996. Italian UN Soldiers arrest young Serbian looters.After Dayton agreements. -
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Sarajevo, Grbavica. March 1996. Alcoholic parents, apartment on fire: a little Serbian boy goes through a tottaly confused situation. -
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Sarajevo. March 1996. Graffiti. -
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Sarajevo, Grbavica. March 1996. A Serb Women burns her Tito biographies and Yugoslav history books before leaving. -
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Sarajevo, Grbavica. March 1996. An old Serb couple sees his apartment building in flames. -
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Sarajevo, Iliza. March 1996. Serbs and Muslim neighbors meat each other again and hold a passionated discussion after being enemies during the 5 years of war. -
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Kosovo, Pristina. March 1998. Albanese students demonstrations as protest against the violence in Drenica area. -
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Kosovo, Pec. March 1998. he Burial of Qerim Muriqi, an ethnic albanian killed by Yugoslav police during anti Serb government protest. The Albanian flag covers his body. -
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Glojane, Kosovo. March 1998. A wake in an Albanian farm before the Muslim traditional Burial of Kosovar Albanian brothers, killed trying to run from Yugoslav police as they launch a raid in the village. -
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Glojane, Kosovo. March 1998. A wake in an Albanian farm before the Muslim traditional Burial of Kosovar Albanian brothers, killed trying to run from Yugoslav police as they launch a raid in the village. -
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Precaz, Kosovo. March 1998. Witness of the Precaz massacre where 50 Albanians have been killed in a Serb Police Raid. -
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Kosovo, Drenica, Village of Obrinje. October 10, 1998. An Ethnic Albanian walks by his house which has been destroyed by the Yugoslav forces during the last September offensive. -
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Obrinje woods, Kosovo. October 1998. The hand of one of the victims of the Obrinje. -
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Kisna Reca. October 1998. Refugees set a plastic shelter to spend the night in the woods. -
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Obrijne. October 1998. Death of a Kosovar Albanian women in a refugee camp. -
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Kosovo. October 1998. Kosovar Albanian refugees isolated and lost in the woods in the mountains. About 10 000 ethnic Albanians are living under plastic tents since 3 months. Their homes have been destroyed by the army and the Yugoslavian special forces. -
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Central Kosovo Woods. October 1998. Death and burial of a baby in a refugee camp. -
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Studencane, Kosovo. February 1998. Serb Police Patrol. -
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Kosovo, on the road from Pristina to the Macedonian border, near the village of Gajare, some 35 kms south of Pristina. February 28,1998. A Serbian policeman Has been killed and four were wounded in Southern Kosovo on sunday as government forces battled with separatist ethnic albanian Guerillas. This police officer's car drove into an ambush as he was traveling on a dirt road towards Gajare. -
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Rugova, Kosovo. February 1999. Rugova massacre. 25 Kosovar Albanian killed by Serb police in a farm. Serb police investigate the crime. -
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Rugova, Kosovo. February 1999. Rugova massacre funerals. 25 Kosovar Albanian killed by Serb police. -
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Racak, Kosovo. February 1999. Funeral of the victims of the massacre of Racak which made 45 victims. -
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Racak, Kosovo. February 1999. Funeral of the victims of the massacre of Racak which made 45 victims. -
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Ivaja, Kosovo. March 1999. An old Kosovar Albanian has been beaten by Yugoslav soldiers as they entered his village and torched every single houses. -
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Blace, Macedonian, Kosovo border. April 1999. The exodus of 700 000 refugees during NATO Air campaign over Yugoslavia. Here, 10 000 arrived by train from Pristina. -
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Blace, Macedonian border with Kosovo. April 1999. Bread distribution in a Kosovar Albanian refugee camp. 700 000 Albanians where expelled out of Kosovo by the Serbs during the NATO Air campaign over Yugoslavia. -
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Macedonia. April 1999. Kosovar Albanian refugees moved from camps to camps in buses. 700 000 Albanians where expelled out of Kosovo by the Serbs during the Nato Campaign over Yugoslavia. -
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Macedonia, Kosovo border. April 1999. A Kosovar Albanian refugee falls exhausted on the floor as she crosses the -
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Djakova Kosovo. July 1999. After the invasion by the NATO troops. -
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Prizren, Kosovo. July 1999. German NATO soldier wellcomed by Albanian girls.
Bursts of War – Yugoslavia 1991 – 1999
Both observation and testimony, these photos show, the human drama of the last war of the twentieth century: crumbs, bits, bursts of humanity in tear, bruised, no national or religious claim can justify. Vukovar, Mostar, Sarajevo are all names that have become symbols of the unacceptable.
“It all started when I was 27, and my view of the world was that of a teenager. Vocation as a photographer, which I inherited from my father, had never confronted me neither death, nor violence, and war was for me an abstract value.
In mid-May 1991, while I was browsing the Yugoslav republics to shoot a story we would innocently call
“The breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Croatia, I was denied access to the village of Borovo Selo by a band of peasants Serbs. Hooded, armed with shotguns, drunk and aggressive, they were posted on a barricade made of agricultural machinery. The road, mixed with oil drain shining under the sun of a late stormy day.
The storm would only break the following month, at the end of June. Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence. Then, and for several months, a rain of shells fell on the city of Vukovar and the surrounding countryside. When all Croats Serbs majority villages were finally devastated, the international community still did not speak of ethnic cleansing. In Croatia, the killing was over and the people already imagined the worst for the fate of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A relentless pace was packed fighting and beating time alarming news relayed by the media.
Thus, for almost ten years, I was to accompany to the cemetery thousands of people, Croats, who died for Croatia, Serbs for Greater Serbia, Bosnians because they were Bosnian and finally Albanians in Kosovo, because they were tired of the Serbs. My conscience was buzzing with thick blood, inhabited by the thuds of the war, so close, so present. Therefore, in Yugoslavia I discovered as default hate for love and love for hate.”