Jack Picone - #24 - Melancholy
Frontline Former Yugoslavia: A Bosnian soldier plays Bach on the piano during a cessation in fighting. The soldier Mirzard Kukuru-Zovic told me that before the war he had taught art and music in the same school from which he was now fighting against the Bosnian Serbs from.
© Photograph by Jack Picone
That is an amazingly powerful photograph - tragic but resilient and beautiful too.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sarah that means a lot to me. I have worked in many war and conflict zones and this 'quite' photograph is one that continues to resonate with me. I think it is the back story as much as anything. Mirzard (in the photograph) said that he had attended school there and later taught music and art at this very school......
DeleteWow, you're such a great story teller, Jack! Love your photos!
ReplyDeleteThank you Eva. Interesting you say that and without being presumptuous, I do see myself as a story teller. I just use photographs to tell my stories. Sadly, I am lacking in word skills unlike many of the gifted people here. I have been enjoying your photographs also.
DeleteI have a friend who is a photojournalist. He told me whenever I take a photo I should think about what kind of story I want to tell. You're apparently a very good photojournalist!
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ReplyDeleteI would play Bach
between engagements
Too right Rob!
Deletejeez, heavy and sad
ReplyDeleteIt was Efi but somehow the music seemed like a slice of sanity in what otherwise was an insane situations. It is funny how you forget the small details. I was reading through my notes and I had written that the soldiers were burning textbooks to keep warm.....
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ReplyDeleteHe seems very sane, this musician. Thanks Jack for another story.
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