Pictures from Work, Summer 2001

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Child's drawing from near Prijedor, Republika Srpska.  People spend a lot of time reconstructing houses.

 

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A visit to Dobretici, an area high in the mountains.  It was a cold rainy day in June.  The third picture from the left is the interior of the village store -- note all the alcohol on the right.  The last picture on the right is a guy saying "What about me?" -- he's annoyed that we didn't have something to give him.  His dog is also barking.

 

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Visit to Ravno Polje near Kupres.  First from the left are some Bogumil graves from (approximately) somewhere between the  11th and 15th centuries.  Second is housing reconstruction; third a calf; fourth an old shipping container converted to a temporary home.

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A village near Mostar.  First from the left is a happy goat; second an old Moskvich car.  The third picture is of two of my co-workers with a returnee who played "House of the Rising Sun" on his old guitar on a really hot day.  Fourth is a tomato orchard; fifth is (yet another) destroyed house.

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Another village near Mostar.  First from the left is "Bosnian Gothic." Second is a guy posing on his destroyed property with his daughter -- his house was occupied by soldiers during the war, and they left behind souvenirs.  Third is (surprise) a destroyed mosque.  Fourth is detail from the destroyed mosque.

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Roadside scenery somewhere in Bosnia.

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From the Palanka Valley near Sanski Most, August 2001.  The valley was completely abandoned from 1995-2000.  I'm in the picture in the center.

 

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Palanka Valley school, to be repaired.  The picture in the center is of a co-worker reading through an old biology textbook.

 

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From Trnopolje, near Prijedor in the Republika Srpska, taken August 2001.  Pictures taken there one year previously are here.  Since then we've put up some 50 houses for people who came back to the area.  On the left is a picture of an old Muslim graveyard (with toppled minaret in the background); on the right is a dog sitting lazily in the sun next to some chickens.  More pictures of dogs from Trnopolje are here (at the bottom of the page, "Dogs from Bosnia".)

 

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