(8 Jul 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sarajevo, Bosnia - 7 July 2025
1. Wide exterior of the National Library building
2. Various interior shots of scarves, part of the Mother’s Scarf art installation, hung inside the National Library
3. Close of the Mother’s Scarf art installation poster
4. Various of scarves hung inside the National Library
5. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Velma Saric, representative of the Post Conflict Research Center:
“After starting with scarves and shawls of (the Srebrenica) mothers, we inspired solidarity of women from around the world. We now have over 3,000 scarves and shawls donated by (human rights) activists from around the globe, including some VIPs, and they are all equally important to us.”
6. Various of the Mother’s Scarf art installation in the National Library
7. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Velma Saric, representative of the Post Conflict Research Center:
“We use art because it inspires empathy, it can wordlessly put things into context and provide explanations and for us it is one of the most important forms (of communication) when talking about difficult subjects such as genocide.”
8. Close of decorative tiles in the National Library
9. Close of a white rose on the floor of the National Library
10. Various of the “Mother’s Scarf” art installation
11. Mid of a mother of Srebrenica portrait by artist Nour Hassan
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nour Hassan, artist from New Zealand:
“Our feelings and emotions are, everyone feels them in different ways and in different capacities. My focus is micro expressions, what I try to do is just capture the essence of the person that I am looking at, I try to capture their emotion. And I feel like if I capture that then other people can connect with it."
13. Close of a portrait by Nour Hassan
14. Easels holding portraits by Nour Hassan
15. Close of a portrait by Nour Hassan
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nour Hassan, artist from New Zealand:
“It feels like something bigger than art and also it incorporates history as well, and remembrance.”
17. Two people standing next to easels, looking at Nour Hassan’s portraits
18. Top shot of art installation visitors, partially obscured by scarves hung as part of the installation
19. Crowd of visitors inside the National Library
20. Part of a Mother of Srebrenica painting exhibited in the National Library
21. Various of art installation visitors
22. Wide of Fatima Klempic Dautbasic, Srebrenica massacre survivor, addressing visitors
23. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Fatima Klempic Dautbasic, Srebrenica massacre survivor:
“To me, this exhibition is particularly valuable because it includes portraits of mothers who passed away without completing their mission to find their (murdered) children and help them find peace in the valley of white gravestones.”
24. Art installation attendees in the hole of the National Library
25. Painted glass ceiling of the National Library
26. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Fatima Klempic Dautbasic, Srebrenica massacre survivor:
“I walked tha... [truncated]
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