Growing up in the mid-1990s there was one country and one city in particular that dominated the news. That country was Bosnia, the city Sarajevo. As a young boy not even ten I had no idea where Bosnia was, let alone what it was about, but it was there every night for over three years. From the age of 9 to 12, my most formative years, every night a news report from Sarajevo.

That’s why when the opportunity came in 2013 I visited this city. I thought that nearly twenty years on from the siege everything would be fixed. After peace had come and the press corps had packed up and gone home we had not heard anything about the city. What I found was a city still scarred by its recent history, so I took the opportunity to learn. Then I began planning for a another visit, this time to produce a visual history of the siege of Sarajevo told through images taken twenty years on from the horrific days of the 1990s.

The finished work is only part of a series chronicling the breakup of Yugoslavia. ‘Trebevic’s Shadow’ is the edition of the work about the Siege of Sarajevo. For its title, I took the name of one of the mountains that overlooks the city. During the siege Trebevic was held by the Bosnian Serbs and everything in its shadow was in the sights of the Serb guns on the mountain.