SREBRENICA - Genocide At The Heart Of Europe - Magazine

Today is a sad day in Bosnia and Herzegovina as we are remembering the victims of genocide committed by Serbians on innocent Muslims in Srebrenica. Each year new remains, taken from the mass grave locations are being identified and buried in the Memorial Center Potocari in Srebrenica. Let us remember the photographs taken by Tarik Samarah, a well-known Bosnian photographer.

Tarik Samarah

His interest lies within the field of artistic and documentary photography, and his greatest professional success is the project "Srebrenica - Genocide in the Heart of Europe" - a series of black and white photographs documenting the consequences of the genocide in Srebrenica. He has been working on that project for more than five years.

His photographs were exhibited in many renowned art galleries, museums and public spaces in the world, in the form of solo and group exhibitions, some of which took place at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, the UN headquarters in New York, Galerie du Jour Paris, the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, the Westerbork Memorial Center, the Pordenone Arte Contemporane Gallery in Italy, the travelling exhibitions of Anne Frank Museum in Rabat, Cape Town, and the Museum of the Holocaust and the Illinois Illinois Center, Chicago Skokie Gallery, the Norwegian Center for Holocaust Studies and religious minorities in Oslo, Plaine de Plainpalais in Geneva, and Westminister Abbey in London and many others.

Samarah is the author of two publications. The monograph "Srebrenica" was published in two editions, one in Bosnian and English, the other in Catalan and English. Samarah's photographs are known worldwide through the cover pages of various scientific and research books and publications.

Samarah is an award-winning author. Award of the International Center for Peace "Freedom", GRAND-PRIX Award for Applied Arts in 2005, and Award of the Literary Fair Ljubljana are just some of the acknowledgements he received for his work and dedication. His photographs are part of a permanent display in the Memorial Gallery of 11/07/95 in Sarajevo.