Field notes: Belgrade

This is a small selection from a long-term effort to record Belgrade as it really looks and feels: its street corners, markets, leftover fragments of the Yugoslav aesthetic that persist in places where the city keeps building over itself. I’m trying to understand how a city is supposed to grow to serve people better, yet often fails; how we once built practically and beautifully, and now keep demolishing the old under the illusion that the new will be cleaner, better, more comfortable. It rarely is.

I use basic film cameras and hand-process the rolls myself. The limitations of the method are appropriate: quick shooting, minimal control, and no staging. The roughness stays in the work and reflects the conditions under which these pictures are made.