Andy was passing through Belgrade last week, so Darko and I took him to one of my favorite spots down past the bus station. We watched Serbia beat Croatia in handball and we drank too much free rakija from the drunk guy we shared the table with. I kept stealing Andy’s phone and this is one of the pictures I took with it
Gorgeous collaboration and inspiration
Alec Soth gives a tour of the Postcards From America box set. Buy it here: http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/
My neighbors have had their Vespa parked between our doors on the Ninth Floor of the Mirocka 6 building in Belgrade for the last month. They’ve also recently added a Christmas tree to their garden of fluorescent-fed shrubberies.
Stray (and horny) dogs walking in Kosutnjak Forest in Belgrade, Serbia. Matt Lutton pour M le magazine du Monde
via conscientious redux“Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I’m a photographer.”
A classic communist-era family car shelters under the trees at a desolate riverside picnic spot. The Danube’s economic decline mirrored the fall of the Soviet Union and the rapid collapse of heavy industries in the early 1990s. The break-up of the former Yugoslavia caused additional hardships. A riparian boundary dispute between Serbia and Croatia hampers joint Danube revival projects two decades on.
Be sure to visit my website mattlutton.com for the full photo series, including this story on the Danube. Captions this week have come from my colleague Neil MacDonald who wrote the great article for the Financial Times that I photographed, and lastly you can view the FT’s slideshow here. Both the article and slideshow might be behind sign-up walls.
Fog descends over the waterfront at Zemun, a former Austro-Hungarian city taken over by Serbia after the first world war and later absorbed into Belgrade. The war’s opening artillery salvos, fired from here on July 28 1914, rained destruction onto the Balkan capital down the Danube. The historic suburb still retains a distinctive dialect, identity and Middle European attitude
Tyres for heavy construction vehicles lie piled up on a quiet quay in the newer part of Prahovo’s harbour. Falling water levels due to low rainfall have blocked much of the shipping on the Danube in late 2011. Poor waterway management and infrequent dredging – from Germany all the way to the Black Sea – have compounded the problem, officials say
This partly submerged river boat, like much of the lower Danube, has seen better days. The scenic riverfront in Golubac, 95km from Belgrade, is being paved to create a pleasant promenade. The European Union has provided €6.5m to reinvigorate the historic fortress town. But without functioning river ports, even for small passenger boats, tourism potential will remain stifled
Farmers mounted on a tractor and wagon pull into Veliko Gradiste, one of the larger towns on the road to the Iron Gates, the gorge dividing Serbia from Romania. If properly utilised, the Danube waterway could provide sustenance for communities up to 100km inland from either bank, say infrastructure consultants who envisage a more prosperous future for the area
Captain Srecko Nikolic, head of the Serbian Shipmasters Association, gazes down the Danube from Kladovo to the Iron Gates. Born in Croatia, he was raised around the river and worked for a decade as a commercial riverboat captain. During the 1990s Yugoslav wars, Nikolic moved to eastern Serbia. Behind him is the Romanian shipbuilding city of Drobeta-Turnu Severin
A man walking along the Danube in the Serbian city of Zemun, during reconstruction of the waterfront and the marina. November 2011
— “The Fall of Yugoslavia” by Misha Glenny. Pg 83
Delivery of a new refrigerator, Trudelj, Serbia
Passages in Dorćol area, Belgrade. It’s two pictures next to each other.
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