The Bosnian Dream 2017

Miodrag Misha Pipercic “The Bosnian Dream” photo-essay (Ongoing project 2014- ) Made by someone who is born in Sarajevo, Bosnia. With this project I want to show the nonsense of the war and the consequents. 20 years after the war, the war is still in me. During the war I lost my brother and as many people in Bosnia I lost almost everything I had. But love, faith and hope I have never lost. “The Bosnian dream” is ugly brother of “The American dream”. Long time ago Bosnians had the dreams too. Nowadays, I am not sure. “The Bosnian dream” takes a place between a dream, reality and an imagination. With my story I am trying to make a circle of a period, to make a circle of specific emotions. To make a circle of something to be able to understand better my life. Working on this project made a pain in my soul, but it also worked as a medicine. I want to make attention to one country and their people who are completely forgotten and nobody cares anymore for them, because big powers have other geopolitical interests at the moment. While working on this story I was also looking for my roots and asking myself: How would it be if there was no war? What would happen with me if I stayed there? Would I be different? Would I still be alive? … About Miodrag Misha Pipercic Is Serbian-Dutch photographer from Montenegro’s Pipera clan, born in Sarajevo in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, nowadays capital of Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina on the day that USSR fall into Czechoslovakia. Dutch curator of photography Mrs. Maartje van den Heuvel has commented Pipercic’s work as follow: “Although Pipercic has used different photo jargons in his previous works like poetic photography, photojournalism and ego documentary, he has clearly chosen documentary approach for Bosnia project. His strong feeling for detail makes this project very touching, being the main characteristic of photo documentary.” From 1991 Misha lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://mpipera.wix.com/misha