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Makeshift / Places of Public Utility
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A Mountain
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“Places of Public Utility” is a book summarising more than a decade of documentary work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on mass atrocities of Bosnian War and post-war fate of places where they were committed. The context of those seemingly ordinary places becomes impossible to envision, as clashing historical narratives about what happened become new revisions of history. The book combines images with direct quotations from judiciary documents concerning the events of the war, constructing an alternative narrative about what took place – events whose traces often remain deliberately hidden today, with no tangible remnants, commemorative plaques, or memorial rooms. There aren’t many monuments to the victims of this conflict. By common saying, it's winners who write history.
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Places of Public Utility
Photographs: Paweł Starzec
Sequencing: Martyna Wyrzykowska, Paweł Starzec, Łukasz Rusznica
Design: Martyna Wyrzykowska
Curator: Łukasz Rusznica
Essay: Hikmet Karčić
Preparation of photographs for printing: Karol Bagiński
Managing editor: Joanna Osiewicz-Lorenzutti
Proofreading: Elaine Bingham
Texts are redacted quotations from Final Report of the Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 (1992) – Annex VIII: Camps and ICTY indictments and other adjacent sources.
Printing and binding: Argraf
Printed on Garda Pat 13 Kiara and Munken Pure Rough distributed by Europapier
Typeset in Tor Grotesk by Threedotstype
Copyright © for the photographs by Paweł Starzec
Copyright © for the edition by Sun Archive, Wrocław 2026
Published by Sun Archive (Archiwum Słońca)
First edition
500 copies
ISBN: 978-83-971436-5-4
This publication was co-financed by Hasselblad Foundation 2025 Photo Book Grant
This publication was co-financed by the Municipality of Wrocław
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