Used to be

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  • Dates
    2015 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Landscape, Contemporary Issues, Documentary
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I'm visual story teller who works in conceptual — documentary domain of photography with strong research themes and longterm photography projects fulfilled by social relevant narrative.

I am born in one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, a country which doesn't exist any more.

Through government propaganda Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

was being presented as the enlightenment ideal, a symbol which stood for everything progressive, rational and humanistic in relation to socio-political organization of society - its proclaimed characteristic was the fight against social backwardness.

In this series of photographs I’m documenting existent / remaining (still visible and physically present) symbols of the once glorified concept - Yugoslavia.

Although we as a society / collective try to suppress memories and recollections of SFRY it still undoubtedly continues to shape cultural, historical and socio-political paradigm of contemporary Balkan countries.

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Main building in military resort Kupari built for highest rank Yugoslavian generals and officers. Complex was financed by Yugoslavian defence budget with more than a billion dollars in present value.

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Main tunnel entrance to hidden military airport Zeljava thats built in seventies in complete secret by political prisoners of Yugoslavia and it wort 80 billion US dollars in todays money.

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Tunnel entrance in a shape of Mig 21 airplane in hidden military airport Zeljava thats built in seventies in complete secret by political prisoners of Yugoslavia and it wort 80 billion US dollars in todays money.

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Tunnel entrance to hidden military airport Zeljava thats built in seventies in complete secret by political prisoners of Yugoslavia and it wort 80 billion US dollars in todays money.

© Borko Vukosav - Yugoslavian airplane on entrance in military airbase Zeljava on Croatian-Bosnian border.
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Yugoslavian airplane on entrance in military airbase Zeljava on Croatian-Bosnian border.

© Borko Vukosav - Yugoslavian generals and high rank officers making military plans in one of the hidden rooms in Zeljava military airbase.
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Yugoslavian generals and high rank officers making military plans in one of the hidden rooms in Zeljava military airbase.

© Borko Vukosav - Missile practice in biggest tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.
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Missile practice in biggest tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.

© Borko Vukosav - Military exercises in biggest Yugoslavian tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.
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Military exercises in biggest Yugoslavian tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.

© Borko Vukosav - Lake created by missile practices located in biggest tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.
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Lake created by missile practices located in biggest tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.

© Borko Vukosav - Training court in tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.
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Training court in tank base in Jastrebarsko, Croatia.

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Empty flag holders in Petrova Gora; monument designed by Yugoslavian sculpturist Vojin Bakic in seventies that today represents highest architectural wonder of Yugoslavian architecture in general.

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Petrova Gora monument is symbol of Yugoslavian resistance towards nazy Germany in WWII but was built in memory of all the Yugoslavian victims that died in that battle.

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Vintage vacum cleaner from seventies in interior of socialist political school in Kumrovec, Yugoslavias lifetime president Tito's hometown that was built exclusively for teaching Marxism.

© Borko Vukosav - Bar in political school in Kumrovec; Yugoslavian lifetime president Tito's hometown.
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Bar in political school in Kumrovec; Yugoslavian lifetime president Tito's hometown.

© Borko Vukosav - Bar leftovers in political school in Kumrovec, Croatia.
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Bar leftovers in political school in Kumrovec, Croatia.

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Opening ceremony of XIV Winter Olympics in Sarajevo 1984.. It was followed by 60 000 Yugoslavian citizens live on stadium and over two billion via television broadcasting.

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Starting position bobsled track on a hill overlooking Sarajevo that was built exclusively for Winter Olympic games in 1984. and never used again.

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Bobsled track on a hill overlooking Sarajevo that was built exclusively for Winter Olympic games in 1984. and never used again.

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Bobsled track on a hill overlooking Sarajevo that was built exclusively for Winter Olympic games in 1984. and never used again.

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Bobsled track on a hill overlooking Sarajevo that was built exclusively for Winter Olympic games in 1984. and never used again.