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BASTAMany Serbs have managed to find their way back to their lives after the Second World War, but not all of them. VIKTORDon’t complicate things. Just get straight to the core. Say that they slaughtered us during the war. BASTAYes, but he already knows that. VIKTORYou are wrong! He doesn’t have a clue. Younger generations…

Just as the motorway bends slightly southeast towards Belgrade from Nikola Tesla airport, one can spot the crown of the Western City Gate from about two kilometers away. The looming tower reveals itself when approaching; A concrete high-rise stretching roughly 120 meters to the sky. It’s one of those buildings you can say “you won’t…

Miodrag “Bata” Govedarica is a poet, composer, and singer. He is also a father, grandfather, and widower. He moved to Novi Beograd forty years ago and has lived in an apartment on the fifth floor of Blok 7A ever since. “I had two sons then. I came here with them and my wife,” he tells…

“I know the names of more dogs than people here.” Filip Jašić is flanked by monumental buildings in Blok 62. He stands calmly with a cigarette in his hand. He has just petted a dog and greeted its two-legged owner. “You can feel a sense of community, especially with other people walking their dogs. You…

When Mirjana Milenković first moved to Novi Beograd, she felt like she didn’t belong. That was over 50 years ago. “When I came to Belgrade, it was too big for me, you know? Everything was unfamiliar.”  She offers wine and brings a coffee mug to her lips. The smell of homemade sarma, already eaten, lingers…

“If people don’t want it there, man, don’t build it. We don’t want it,” 28-year-old Damir Ibišbegović says from the edge of his bed. Recently, property developers wanted to wedge an eight-story office building onto a plot of land in his neighborhood. If realized, the elongated building would block both the sun and the view…

Paintings, drawings, photos, and keepsakes adorn the yellowed wallpaper of Bistro Nana. A Pioneer’s Titovka hat and an accompanying red scarf. A private collection of old smoking pipes. A homemade calendar, where a man is Photoshopped next to Tito’s wife, Jovanka Broz. Multiple witch figures hang inside the room, 49 to be exact. They are…

Two years have passed since I published my photo book Life in the New, which explores the monumental architecture and everyday life of Novi Beograd, Serbia. Through portraits, interviews, and documentary photography, it tells the story of a city shaped by socialist modernism and the people who live within it today. To mark the anniversary,…

Standing on the rooftop of a 14-story residential block in Blok 63, the horizon is mainly layers upon layers of parks, recreational spots, and more buildings. Apartment buildings reach towards the sky, low-rise slot casinos and shopping malls are sporadically spread around in the landscape, and there is a mash of concrete and greenery as…

Ønsker du å gjøre handelen av boken «Life in the New» på en enklere måte, kan den betales med Vipps. OBS: UTSOLGT. Jeg har solgt alle mine bøker. Du kan nå kjøpe den via Kerber Verlag. Jeg har fremdeles et begrenset opplag prints tilgjengelig her.  Les om boka her Boken er utsolgt. Ønsker du å kjøpe…