Joegoslavië, april 1943 1943 - 1944

This photo album page titled 'Joegoslavië, april 1943', was made by an anonymous artist. It shows daily life in Yugoslavia. Looking at these images, I'm struck by the women, their labour and resilience. The light is beautiful and the compositions are simple. You can feel the artist capturing fleeting moments, a kind of honest, immediate response to what they saw. I imagine the artist moving around this village, noticing small details, how people interact, how the light falls on objects, and trying to find a balance between capturing the scene and telling a story. It's like they were piecing together fragments of reality and weaving them into a cohesive picture of life during a specific time and place. Thinking about this photograph reminds me how artists are always looking, absorbing, and translating the world around them. We're all connected, influencing each other across time and space. Ultimately, art is a way of making sense of the world and our place in it, a process of continuous exploration and discovery.