Farmers, near Knin, Croatia
Boy with a toy gun in a resettlement camp
Widows of the Srebreniza Massacre
The Serb cathedral in Mitrovica, Kosovo
A recent returnee,
near Knin, Croatia
Vegetable farmers
near Knin, Croatia
This Croatian couple returned to a burnt home
An ethnic Croat in the remains of her church
An ethnic Serb returns
to her home in Croatia
Croatian refugee whose husband was murdered
Twins walking through present-day Srebreniza
Croatian returnees
Stoking the fires of a new future, near Sarajevo
Bosnian boy helps his parents rebuild
Bosnian couple standing in their former home
A bombed-out church near Knin, Croatia
Man selling cloth in Sarajevo
The Sarajevo tramway
Poster for a new rock album, Sarajevo
Widows without a future, near Belgrade
Ethnic Serbs still living  
in Kosovo
A Roma resettlement camp, Mitrovica, Kososvo
Roma boys in a resettlement camp
Serbian girl on vacation in Croatia
 
“After the War Was Over” The Balkans: the ‘miracle’ of Dayton—10 years later. Commissioned for UNHCR’s “Refugees” Magazine, July 2005.
 
VINCENT WINTER PHOTOGRAPHS
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended on 21 November 1995 when the major protagonists in the conflict agreed to what became known as the Dayton Peace Accords at an obscure U.S. Air Force base in the American state of Ohio. The country, which less than a decade earlier had hosted the Winter Olympic Games, lay in ruins. Much of its infrastructure—roads, factories, homes and schools—was destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of civilians here and in the surrounding Balkan countries had been killed and several million uprooted from their villages, towns and cities. In the intervening 10 years, more than one million people have
returned to their former homes. Half of the country’s homes have been rebuilt or replaced. Sarajevo has enjoyed a rebirth, its street life, boutiques and restaurants flourishing once more. But much more needs to be done. Some 200,000 people remain displaced. Foreign assistance is scarce and jobs difficult to find. Rebuilding a shattered country will take much longer to complete, but as Paddy Ashdown, the current High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina has said: “The miracle in Bosnia is how much has been done in 10 years.”
This exhibition is a snapshot in time of its progress.