Belgrade. Capital of Yugoslavia

When Filip Mitrovski was born in 1993, socialist Yugoslavia no longer existed. Nevertheless, his parents' country was present in his childhood: in kitchen table discussions with his Macedonian relatives and on the soccer field in Stuttgart, where the other migrant children spoke Serbo-Croatian as well as German. Many children in the neighborhood came from Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia; States that emerged from Yugoslavia in the XNUMXs, such as today's North Macedonia. The former multi-ethnic state collapsed into seven countries at the start of the Yugoslav wars; in some ethnic tensions are still visible today.

For his series of pictures, Filip traveled to Belgrade in 2019 - today the capital of Serbia. Where is the architectural heritage of the former multi-ethnic state still visible? What lives on in these formerly representative places and what is growing there today? The series of images shows a lesser-known Belgrade. A Belgrade, far from the hustle and bustle. One that is covered by the dust of history and gives an idea of ​​what this city once was: capital of Yugoslavia.

Filip Mitrovski studies historical urban studies at the Technical University. For his master's thesis, Filip also worked on a series of images about the Albanian capital Tirana.

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