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Tarik Samarah

Tarik Samarah has been engaged in taking artistic and documentary photographs for the past decade. He is a member of the Artists of the Applied Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ULUPUB&H. He won ULUPUB&H Grand Prix in 2005. He is professionally represented by the agency Grazia Neri from Milan, Italy. In the past five years, he has been working on the project "Srebrenica – Genocide in the Heart of Europe".

His work dedicated to Srebrenica was first presented to the public in 2003, by displaying the photographs of large format (5 x 7m) within the opus "Night, Wire, Srebrenica", above the "Eternal Fire" in Sarajevo, the symbol of the fight against fascism in the World War II. During 2003, his photographs were in the form of jumbo posters, billboards and city-lights (more than 450 copies) also displayed in other towns of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation and the Republic of Srpska.

In 2003, he presented the photographs of Srebrenica to OHR and Srebrenica Foundation, for the campaign intended for fund raising for the building of Commemorative Centre and Cemetery "Srebrenica-Potočari". His first individual exhibition "11th July" was displayed at the Commemorative Centre in Potočari in March 2003, and the whole exhibition was donated to the Commemorative Centre, thus opening the issue of the existence of the future Museum in Potočari. This exhibition was censored by international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"Bosnian Girl", his joint work with a conceptual artist, Šejla Kamerić, had many presentations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, the Netherlands, Japan, and other countries, both at the museums and prestigious world galleries. This work was displayed in the form of the poster in Sarajevo during 2003.

His photograph exhibition "Srebrenica" was displayed at Dutch Parliament in the Hague on 22nd June 2005. In June 2005, in co-operation with Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Serbia and Montenegro, he presented the posters with the photographs of Srebrenica under the slogan "To See, to Know, and to Remember" in several towns of Serbia and Montenegro. At the same time, these posters were displayed in Zagreb and Sarajevo. On the tenth anniversary of Srebrenica fall, on 11th July 2005, the photograph exhibition was displayed at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, under the name of “Abandoned at Srebrenica: Ten years later". Some of his photographs were also displayed at collective exhibition at the building of United Nations and Turkish Centre in New York.

In the co-operation with Centre for Modern Art Sarajevo and La Benevolencija, in July 2005, on the building of old Jewish synagogue in Sarajevo, he displayed the photograph called "1945-1995-2005" marking 10 years after Srebrenica fall and 60 years of Holocaust. The same photograph was displayed, from October 2005 to March 2006, in Zagreb, in Praška street, on the place of the former synagogue, completely destroyed in the World War II.

In July 2005, the monograph "Srebrenica" in the edition of Ministry of Culture and Education of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Synopsis, Zagreb, was published. He exhibited his photographs at the "Mimara" Museum in Zagreb, on 20th June 2006, at collective exhibition 8372 DID NOT COME under the umbrella of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.