Gallery: Haunting Photos of Life 20 Years After the Bosnian War

  • The flag and the girl
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    Left: People in Prijedor wave a Serbian flag in celebration of the orthodox Christian holiday of Krstovdan. Right: A girl watches the event.
  • The train station
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    A train station in the Brcko district, an autonomous region in the north that sits half way in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and halfway in Republika Srpska.
  • The swimmers the priest and the rich couple.
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    Left: Men finish a swimming race during Krstovdan, the day of the Christ, in Prijedor. Right: A couple watches the procession.
  • The boy the woman and the waste.
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    A woman and boy at the trash dumpsters in Visca, one of several refugee camps that still exist.
  • The smoking old woman and the cloud.
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    Left: A woman bundled up in a coat smokes a cigarette in Markale square in Sarajevo where more than 100 people were massacred during the war. Right: Quiet, beautiful mountains
  • Srebrenica nuit à nuit
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    Three generation of farmers pose for their picture in the mountains.
  • The man and the damage car
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    A man disassembles a wrecked car on the side of a road.
  • The hotel and the factory
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    Left: A new hotel on the road to Prijedor. Right: A factory across the street.
  • The boy and the dog
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    Left: A young resident of the Visca refugee camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "He's about 12 years old and has just hidden the cigarette he was smoking before I took this picture," Selbert says. Right: A dog barks on a rooftop in Sarajevo.
  • Srebrenica nuit à nuit
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    Men pray in a gym during an annual commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide.
  • The hotel and the bus stop
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    Left: A girl stands before the Krajina Hotel in Banja Luka, the capital of Republika Srspka. Right: A bus stop in the village of Trnopolje, where Serb soldiers set up a concentration camp.
  • The baptism
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    An Orthodox priest baptizes a boy in Pale, a former hub for Serbian soldiers near Sarajevo.
  • The young girl and the destroyed house.
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    A girl walks down the street in a village near Sarajevo.
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