This project stemmed from the need to publicize a topical story of overwhelming
and global importance: land mines and the ongoing suffering following
war. I have explored what it means to grow up in a society which has been
devastated, amid chaos but also reconstruction. To be born as children
after the end of a war that none of their parents can justify today, to
be at daily risk of becoming the victim of an insidious danger: land mines.
Enchanted glades, green forests, flower strewn meadows, even the beautiful
can be dangerous.
Such children are born into a Bosnia Herzegovina when there was not jet
any education about the dangers: the government even pays citizens to
bring in unexploded land mines. They are deprived of the freedom to enjoy
the green nature surrounding them, condemned to being the constant victims
of the war.
The children’s eyes, unclouded by the visions of the war itself,
shine with the simple desire to be alive and happy. They live in an injured
country, which only they, the new generation, can finally
heal.