Goran Galic shows in his work "Fragments from Tmurno" a particular choice of photographies he made during several stays to BiH since 2001. The flow of images is interrupted by phrases, which Galic extracted from personal interviews and short stories he made during his journeys through Bosnia. Galic's intention is to reflect about and raise questions in regard to Bosnia's reality and how it is depicted through words and images. The instrumentalisation of media forced a distorted perception of reality and lead to a desastrous war which is still strongly hindering the consensus within Bosnia's society about its own future.

Goran Galic was born in 1977 in Lucerne and „got lost“ since then somewhere between his parents native country of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Switzerland. Goran Galic passed his diploma this summer in photography at the University of Art and Design in Zurich Goran Galic shows in his work„fragments from tmurno“ a particular choice of photographies he made during several stays to Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2001. The flow of images is interrupted by phrases, which Galic extracted from personal interviews and own short stories he made during his journeys through Bosnia. Galic's intention is to reflect about and raise questions in regard to Bosnia's reality and how it is depicted through words and images. The instrumentalisation of media forced a distorted perception of reality and lead to a disastrous war which is still strongly hindering the consensus within Bosnia's society about its own future.

Gian-Reto Gredig shows his video installation "Bosnian Short Cuts". Some of the various short - sometimes manipulated - sequences have an irritating force and are questioning the meaning of the shown Bosnian places and persons which sometimes are quite well-known, but not really identifiable, or sometimes visible, but nameless. Other sequences play around with heavily symbolical pictures and subjects in a naïve but still political way. The installation, which has been conceptualized especially for this conference in Geneva, consciously tries to catch the view of the conferee, who is passing by and has no or almost no time in his function as an international diplomat or Bosnian politician. It hopes to release the conferee after a short while with one or two interesting questions in mind about what he or she just saw and his or her view at Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Gian-Reto Gredig is a student of social anthropology at Zürich University. He is currently working on his final thesis with the working title “Postwar photographer”, a documentary about Goran Galic. The main subjects of the film are different kind of personal and collective acts of remembrance and mainly Galic's attempt of understanding the wartime Bosnia in the '90s through the medium of photography.