Sarajevo Self-Portrait: The View from the Inside

Nine Bosnian photographers present 130 color and b & w photographs of their ravaged homeland, accompanied by statements about the process of documenting the war in Sarajevo Self-Portrait: The View from Inside, compiled by freelance photographer Leslie Fratkin. These war and postwar images will resonate particularly sharply with American viewers following September 11. Alongside his images of children playing with dolls and wooden guns in the devastated city of Zenica, Mladen Pikulic describes his decision to show ""the normal life of children"" during the war. Kemal Hadzic, a former Bosnian soldier, shows before-and-after images of 500-year-old Islamic architecture destroyed in the war, as well as portraits of his fellow soldiers; Danilo Krstanovic shows civilian victims lying where they fell in 1992 and people in food lines behind sniper screens. (Oct.)