Mostar in Joegoslavië, april 1943 1943 - 1944

This is a black and white photograph of Mostar in Yugoslavia taken in April 1943 by an anonymous photographer. What was it like to take these photos back then? I imagine the photographer carefully composing each shot, framing the buildings and people with a keen eye. The shadows are so intense, almost like another character in the scene. You can feel the sun beating down, creating these stark contrasts that give the images such depth. It’s like the photographer is trying to capture not just what Mostar looked like, but how it felt to be there. It reminds me of Eugène Atget, who documented the streets of Paris in a similar way, trying to preserve a sense of place and time. I find myself wondering about the people in these photographs, what were their lives like? What were they thinking? These images are like little windows into the past, inviting us to imagine and connect with a world that is both familiar and distant. They show how photography becomes an act of remembering, and a way to ensure a kind of immortality.