Dobrinja district - part of Novo Sarajevo - counts about 40.000 inhabitant and is settled between Istočno (East) Sarajevo, Butimir airport and Nedjarici, and it is divided by river Dobrinja the settlement was named after. The crowning moment of Sarajevo’s time in Socialist Yugoslavia was the 1984 winter Olympics. They were followed by an immense boom in tourism making the 80‘s one the of the city's best decades in a long time. During the war 92-95 the area was - due to strategic location- exposed to daily heavy artillery fire from the hills surrounding the city and ethnically divided in killing zones. On the edge of Dobrinja lays a small hill where the Orthodox Church Crkva Vasilija is situated. New East-Sarajevo apartment blocks mostly populated by the Bosnian Serb minority arise a long side. Ironically the former Bosnian Serb frontline on the slopes of the hill are a part of the bureaucratic border as as part of the Dayton agreements that ended the war in 1995. Now Dobrinja is divided by the Republika Srpska and the Moslim Kroation Federation. Fifteen years after the ending of the war I made a reportage on the Dobrinja and its habitants. These individual portraits are a part of this series. These persons and their families grown up and haven been living here during the conflict or came back after the war.
