The photographs document five years of work in Bosnia, testifying to the massacres and the pain of populations uprooted from their land because of religious and political fanaticism. 2002 will be the 10th anniversary of the start of the conflict.
Roger Hutchings was chosen by Grazia Neri and Carla Sozzani to pay homage to photojournalism at a hard time for the profession, as an example of a terse, direct photographic vocabulary. Pain, death, privation, the attempt to maintain decorum in a meagre existence: the essence of war, seen with an understanding eye, as if the photographer wished to protect these people from evil even while expressing his indignation.
A volume published by Federico Motta Editore accompanies the exhibition and presents texts, poems and excerpts from the photographer’s diary along with the images.
The photographs document five years of work in Bosnia, testifying to the massacres and the pain of populations uprooted from their land because of religious and political fanaticism. 2002 will be the 10th anniversary of the start of the conflict.
Roger Hutchings was chosen by Grazia Neri and Carla Sozzani to pay homage to photojournalism at a hard time for the profession, as an example of a terse, direct photographic vocabulary. Pain, death, privation, the attempt to maintain decorum in a meagre existence: the essence of war, seen with an understanding eye, as if the photographer wished to protect these people from evil even while expressing his indignation.
A volume published by Federico Motta Editore accompanies the exhibition and presents texts, poems and excerpts from the photographer’s diary along with the images.