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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Matt Lutton

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Photos
12
Status
Public
Created
May 27, 2013
Updated
Feb 11, 2022
Categories
Contemporary Issues Documentary

Photos (12)

Cover
A late-summer party organized by a Roma family, refugees from Kosovo, under the Gazela bridge which flies over camps on both sides of the Sava river. The destruction of the camps is to make way for reconstruction of the old bridge. © Matt Lutton
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A man works at his metal salvage business in the Nova Gazela camp underneath the bridge. The enterprise employs dozens of people in the community. © Matt Lutton
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Children play near a garbage burn pile in the Stara Gazela camp at dusk. © Matt Lutton
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Smoke from a trash fire looms over the Nova Gazela settlement. © Matt Lutton
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A mother breast-feeding her daughter outside of one of the few permenant homes during the celebration for a baptism in Nova Gazela. © Matt Lutton
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A portrait of Jesus hangs in a cardboard home in the Stara Gazela settlement in "old" Belgrade. © Matt Lutton
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Elvis and his neighbor work to salvage building materials from an abandoned home in the Stara Gazela camp days before the settlement's destruction. © Matt Lutton
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A young man in the Stara Gazela camp. © Matt Lutton
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A Roma outside of a makeshift home in the Belville camp in New Belgrade. © Matt Lutton
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A girl runs through smoke near a suspected arson in an abandoned home in Nova Gazela, a camp on the New Belgrade side of the Sava River. The fire happened on the day before the relocation and destruction of the settlement. © Matt Lutton
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The first city workers, many of them Roma themselves, arrive at the Nova Gazela settlement at 7am on August 31, 2009 to help with the relocation and destruction of the camps. © Matt Lutton
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Bulldozers flatten homes in the Nova Gazela settlement while families, social workers and police watch from under the Gazela bridge. © Matt Lutton
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