AESTHETICS OF LONGING by Nikola Amanovic
A4, 160 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2024
The collection of photographs in Nikola Amanovic’s Aesthetics of Longing are byproducts of flaneuring-wandering around-through the Balkans between 2009-2014. Through the lens of his 35mm film and digital cameras, Nikola takes us on a pilgrimage from his birthplace of Knin to the streets of Serbia’s capital city-Belgrade; from the war-torn province of Kosovo and Metohija to the warm seas of Boka Bay in Montenegro. Nikola Amanovic’s Aesthetics of Longing gives a rare and genuine insight into the elusive past of Former Yugoslavia and the persistent melancholy in the hearts and minds of the Yugoslav diaspora. Nikola’s photographs are raw, unfiltered and seeping with nostalgia. His stories are imbued by a sentimental longing for a time and a place that no longer exists - a collective emotion that connects millions of displaced refugees and migrants from all over the world. Aesthetics of Longing is a book that has been a lifetime in the making and is relevant now more than ever.
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