Design
Sarajevo: Post-Olympic City and Post-War City
Photographing the complex legacies of the war-torn host of the 1984 Winter Olympics.
After taking second place in the giant slalom race on February 14, 1984, 21-year-old Jure Franko stood on this concrete podium as the first and only member of the home team to receive an Olympic medal when the city of Sarajevo, then of Yugoslavia, hosted the Winter Olympics. Eight years later, this same podium would be the site of a more grisly event, the executions of countless victims of the Bosnian War and Siege of Sarajevo.
These two separate and wildly different events still have a strong presence in this city, now the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.