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22:16
Rikard Larma
Season 2, Episode 5
Sep 27, 2025
Rikard Larma tells the story behind the photo. Season 2, episode 5.
The Story Behind the Photo
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO
In this episode of our ‘The Story Behind the Photo’ series, Italian photojournalist Enrico Dagnino tells us the background story of one of his most memorable photos taken in Bosnia, during his war coverage in Sarajevo in late April 1992.
He explains how he managed to snap the photographs of the execution of innocent civilians while being arrested by Arkan soldiers in Ilidza.
a film by DŽEMIL HODŽIĆ
director of photography EMIR JORDAMOVIĆ
editing DŽEMIL HODŽIĆ
sound design LINUS BERGMAN
graphics DUHA MAHER
SUBTITLES: English & Bosnian
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Thanks to photographers for the photos used in the title sequence.
Enrico Dagnino's Photos
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Sarajevo, 94The city is besieged, water is missing, the electricity and the gas when present are as dangerous as a bomb the home made stoves regularly explode burning big and small. The attempt of the Muslim soldiers to break the siege end in massacres of soldiers on the front line.The lack of water compels the population to recover rain water.
Sarajevo, 94 The city is besieged, water is missing, the electricity and the gas when present are as dangerous as a bomb the home made stoves regularly explode burning big and small. The attempt of the Muslim soldiers to break the siege end in massacres of soldiers on the front line.
Sarajevo, 94The city is besieged, water is missing, the electricity and the gas when present are as dangerous as a bomb the home made stoves regularly explode burning big and small. The attempt of the Muslim soldiers to break the siege end in massacres of soldiers on the front line.
Sarajevo 1992
Sarajevo, 93/94
Sarajevo, Bosnia 95 The snipers, shooting from small holes made in the walls of the buildings or from the bushes, had wounded 1030 and killed 255 persons, 60 of whom were children. Every area of the city was a dangerous zone. At every moment from all the places in the mountains surrounding the city the snipers could hit every target in the city.
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