Serbische Gastarbeiter

Uobičajeni sadržaj kofera: Viljamovka, belo projino brašno, orasi, pršuta, domaći rezanci, Bronhoklir sirup, plazma, eurokrem, kore za pitu i box cigareta nepoznatog porekla. Između kora za pitu i plazme su saterane gaće. Čiste, ispeglane, rezervne, ničim izazvane. 

Summer in the city

Hard to put few layers when shooting with telephoto lens. An old frame when learning how to be a wire agency photographer.
Belgrade, 2008.

Serbian Government Swearing-In Ceremony, Version 2014

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” 

- George Orwell, Animal Farm 

Serbian newly elected Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić. Parliament building. Belgrade. 27. April 2014. 

Screen shot from safe distance: Saša Čolić

Election Night Fever

Groups of citizens: Dosta je bilo! (It was enough!) Election HQ, Central Belgrade, 16. March 2014. Led by former Economy Minister Saša Radulović who was running independently this year Parliamentary elections. In a political landscape dominated by populist conformism, Saša Radulović did a campaign based on ideas, which is unusual for Balkans. He accused ruling party leader Aleksandar Vucic for engagement in corruption, and for misleading the public about foreign investments. Radulović's presence on social media is significant, and prior to joining the Serbian government he had a successful Silicon Valley career. Serbia's center-right Progressives won an outright majority in parliament on Sunday.

Photographs: Saša Čolić©Kamerades

Urban Belgrade

Zeleni Venac, major bus hub in Central Belgrade. 2014. 

Photograph: Saša Čolić

In future we trust

 "In future we trust", Serbian Progressive Party parasitic system. Zemun, Belgrade. 2014.

"After the bread, education is the first need for people", Georges Jacques Danton (XVIII century) quotation. St. Sava school used as the Polling Station. Niš, Southern Serbia. 2012.

Photographs: Saša Čolić©Kamerades

Tear sheets-Aksiyon magazine

My portfolio about Serbian transition is published on six pages in Turkish Aksiyon magazine, January 2014.

All photographs: Saša Čolić©Kamerades

24/7 Edge

November 2013-Bor is situated in the south east of Serbia and has approximately 40,000 inhabitants. The town has built up around the large copper mining and smelting industry, which has been in 24/7 production for 100 years. The landscape is dominated by huge opencast mines as well as the, literally mountainous, waste heaps by products of the copper mining and production process: flotation tailing, mining and processing waste waters, rising air pollution to a lethal level. The RTB Bor Group is a serious environmental hot spot in Serbia. It is also a potential regional risk spot, since the collapse of its tailing dams would release high amounts of toxic materials that could reach the Danube river. Photographs: Saša Čolić