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Mitar Simikic

Photographer

Mitar Simikic

Šarac

After the civil war, people of the former Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina remained to live together, though in separate entities. The number of victims has not been confirmed still. Tragedies and dramas of common people continued even after the war. Ranko Mijatović – Šarac is a symbol of the war generation with a clear post-traumatic disorder. Time does not pass, and conflict is eternal. Once shared ideals now cease to exist. Even to Šarac. Living in constant fear and fighting the never-ending battle with PTSD left him unaware of present and uninterested in the future. A life that knows how far from sight and the world, a life that has essentially degraded to such an extent that it only seems to make sense to die there. In a word, left in a life devoid of true serenity.

Mitar Simikic

Mitar Simikić is a documentary photographer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is interested in photo stories in the form of series and long-term projects, a reality photography that examines social values. Mitar’s photography has a personal way to express emotions and perceive people, environments, and situations. Therefore, a photographer is someone who recreates reality with his own visual language.