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Drops against oblivion - photo project

Photo project about Bosnia and Herzegovina - on the path from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul

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Drops against oblivion - photo project

Drops against oblivion - photo project

Drops against oblivion - photo project

Drops against oblivion - photo project

Drops against oblivion - photo project

Photo project about Bosnia and Herzegovina - on the path from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul

Photo project about Bosnia and Herzegovina - on the path from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul

Photo project about Bosnia and Herzegovina - on the path from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul

Photo project about Bosnia and Herzegovina - on the path from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul

Ines Kotarac
Ines Kotarac
Ines Kotarac
Ines Kotarac
1 Campaign |
traveling, Bosnia and Herzegovina
$1,316 USD $1,316 USD 49 backers
63% of $2,086 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Why is it that BORDERS and NATIONALITY, and not FREEDOM, shape the IDENTITY of most of the people on this planet? Today’s national borders have been in constant flux through history and come from a desire to take other people's land and through blood and tears. Everyone is born somewhere. It's not something you deserved, made or gained. How is it then that the pure coincidence of being born in one country leads all too often to a situation where you're ready to kill someone just because that person doesn't belong to your tribe, nation, country or religion.



I was born in BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA and as a 9 year old girl I was forced to leave it as a REFUGEE. My childhood somehow protected me from fully understanding what the horrors of war are. War was for me then the game of adults, a game no one could explain to me in a way I could understand. I was taught to live in the present, to look forward to the future, and to let the past stay in the past. I generally feel free from some borders that people, wars, and history have shaped. Rootless would be the closest picture of my concept of national identity and if any place defines me as a person it would be planet Earth, not any particular country. In the meantime, I moved to Berlin and it happens so often that in mixed international groups people ask you: Where are you from? Sometimes you need to move away to see the whole picture, to see that we are never free from our past and countries we come from. I found out that part of me is still that 9 year old Bosnian refugee girl, a girl that now wants to tell her story.

The WAR in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that heart-shaped country in the middle of Europe, finished 20 years ago. And it’s not just marks of the war that you can see everywhere, like holes in the walls, it’s about the war that is still happening in the heads of the people. Towns are still divided and people are divided with their national identities. The hate and the un-forgiveness are still very much alive and are disabling the country to develop and people to live a normal life again. 


I want that to CHANGE. My only weapon is my CAMERA. I came back to Bosnia and Herzegovina as a photographer, traveled through it from my hometown Bugojno to capital Sarajevo, from divided town Mostar to a place of the biggest massacre in that war - Srebrenica. I was shooting THE LIVING and THE DEAD Bosnia and Herzegovina, making portraits of PEOPLE in streets and on markets, and visiting CEMETERIES. And exactly there, on Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, and Partisan cemeteries I felt that I finally came home and found pieces of my country. Those places don’t call for new hate, revenge or more killing. Death makes everything even. If we can be the same in front of death, why can’t we be brothers and sisters while we’re still alive?

Now, the time has come to show it to the world. I’ve decided to travel with this photo project from my newly adopted town of BERLIN, all the way through the BALKAN region and end up in ISTANBUL. The history of Berlin and Istanbul are marked by conflicts and divisions, but also by the demolition of walls and fostering of acceptance. Countries of the former Yugoslavia are still on their way to unfolding those nodes in themselves. This project will last from the end of April to the beginning of August 2015. The exhibition will try to start a dialog about identities, traces of both personal and global HISTORY, MEMORY and OBLIVION, FORGIVENESS and the lack of it. On my way I will also try to document other people's stories on these themes and show them afterwards.



I have already found spaces to show my work in Berlin (Café & gallery Pappelreiche), Frankfurt Oder (as a part of the festival Art and der Grenze), Prague (Café & gallery Lajka), Rijeka (Erste club Gallery), Split (No name Gallery), Koprivnica (AK Gallery), Tuzla (Peace Flame House Tuzla), Novi Sad (Café & gallery Frida), Skopje (Kooperacija, Mobile / Montage Gallery), Sofia (The Fridge)  and Istanbul (looking for the space). 

This is where you, my lovely audience, come in. I have prepared some nice GIFTS for you – postcards, original prints and shoots. If you donate just 5 euro, this enables me to buy a new roll of film for my analog cameras and every new film brings 24 or 36 new possibilities. So this money makes a real DIFFERENCE and I am utterly GRATEFUL for every piece of SUPPORT. The money collected in this campaign will be used to cover travel costs, accommodation, printing of photos and new films.

I believe that ART can have the POWER to make a CHANGE in the world and I’m ready to do it. Become a part of my project, help me break some borders in people's heads and spread a little more COMPASSION and TOLERANCE. 


The BUDGET of the campaign is as follows:

Travel costs for bus/train/carpooling – 1300 Euro

Costs of accommodation (where it is not possible to use someone’s hospitality)– 600 Euro

Costs of food and refreshments (not to be a starving artist :)) - 400 Euro

Costs of residency in Istanbul – 500 Euro

Prints and promotional materials for the project – 300 Euro

Film rolls and other equipment – 200 Euro

Costs of perks (printing and postal costs) – it's up to you, but let's say 200 Euro

Total costs would therefore sum up to around 3.500 Euro, and I would be more than happy to collect 2.000 of it from this campaign. The rest will hopefully come from some other ways of Universe speaking.


THANKS to:

Tanja Minarik - video

Topola – music used in video

Foto studio Centar, Zagreb - prints

STEP Beyond Travel grant - European Cultural Foundation

Queer Zagreb


WEB: 

www.wherethelightwillfall.com


E-MAIL:

wherethelightwillfall@gmail.com





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THANK YOU!

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You just got me a new roll of film for my camera! Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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POSTCARD JUST FOR YOU!

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You’ll get a postcard signed from me on your address of any photo from the project you choose. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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May 2015
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POSTCARDS, POSTCARDS!

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You’ll get a set of 5 empty postcards. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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May 2015
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SIGNED PRINT FOR YOUR WALL

Currency Conversion $52 USD
€50 EUR
You’ll get original signed print of any photo you want from the project, delivered on your address. Dimensions: 20x30 cm or 30x30 cm. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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May 2015
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ONE PICTURE IS NOT ENOUGH!

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€100 EUR
You want a series of any of my photographs? Three prints of 30x45 cm or 30x30 cm will be delivered to your address. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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May 2015
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PICK A THEME!

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€250 EUR
Give me a word, an idea, an atmosphere and I’ll shoot a picture or two especially for you. Printed version (30x45 cm or 30x30 cm) will be delivered to your door. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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September 2015
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ALL IN ONE!

Currency Conversion $521 USD
€500 EUR
5 postcards, 3 original signed prints of my photos and you give me a theme as an assignment! Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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September 2015
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GET YOUR PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHER

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€1,000 EUR
Together we will develop a photo story and you’ll get a photo shooting anywhere in Europe. Your name will be featured in the list of donors in presentation of the project from Berlin through Balkan to Istanbul and on my website.
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October 2015
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