Balkan Photographers Focus on Limits to EU Freedoms

Four photographers in a new exhibition entitled 'On the Move' in Belgrade examine the meaning of European Union values on the 71st anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, which led to the creation of the forerunner to the EU, the European Coal and Steel Community.

The photographers explore issues facing the EU including "lack of freedom, especially freedom of movement, which directly results in the inequality of human beings, and also reveals a tragic lack of empathy and solidarity", according to the organisers.

One of the photographers, Sandra Vitaljic, a Croatian immigrant in Sweden, depicts women who struggled for the right to live in a democratic 'promised land'.

Damir Sagolj, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Bosnian photographer, examines the treatment of refugees and migrants.

Montenegrin photographer Goran Boricic focuses on Roma people and how they are prevented from travelling.

Igor Coko, a film-maker and photographer from Serbia, documented the inhumane conditions in which people live while trying to get to the EU.

The exhibition was organised by the Center for Civic Education from Podgorica, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Zagreb , the Association for Modern History from Sarajevo, forumZFD from Belgrade and the Heinrich Boll Berlin/Belgrade Foundation.

The exhibition is open at the Endzio Hub gallery in Belgrade until May 22.

The exhibition in Belgrade. Photo: BIRN.

Photo: BIRN.

Photo: BIRN.

Photo: BIRN.

Photo: BIRN.

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