Quest for Identity, 2010, ongoing project

Beyond killing, genocide is about erasing identities. Since 2010 photojournalist Ziyah Gafić (*1980, BiH) is cataloguing objects, which are the witnesses reminiscent of the existence of about 30,000 missing persons of the Bosnian war: personal belongings, everyday objects like keys, books, combs and glasses that were exhumed from the mass graves and to this day, two decades after the conflict, serve to identify the dead. His visual archive shall facilitate the search of relatives for the bereaved, while, despite the sobriety of the presentation, allowing a personal identification with the victims.