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Two men, we’re on fire

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Traditional costumes of Bosniak herders, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Illustrated in 1957. by Hela Volfart, Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb

1933 shanghai slaughterhouse

Photographs from villages on Mountain Bjelašnica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1970′s Part II

Muslim inhabitants of these villages lived an isolated way of life away from modernization, surviving off agriculture and wearing traditional clothes that they produced by hand. Medieval tombstones called stećci found in this area suggest that these landscapes have been inhabited for centuries. Most of the villages were pillaged and burnt down when the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started in 1992, and it’s inhabitants fled in fear for their lives. Today they are scarcely populated and some are completely abandoned.