When Alexandre Ballester first shared his work with archivooo, we published a selection of eighty images about Bosnia and Herzegovina. His images matter because they do not show the country only by what it was. The images are not a negation of its past, but rather a colourful and optimistic record of a nation too often defined by late twentieth century conflicts.

The images are a mosaic of details, intimate moments and personal memories. There are almost empty train stations, green landscapes, graffiti and cozy places. Searching through them, a pattern appears. There are barely any people in the images and yet, together, the entire selection is rich with context. Dates or coordinates matter less than the evidence: Alexandre Ballester has been able to capture the country actively choosing to focus on beauty, while remaining aware of its past.

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