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Colin Dutton’s first visit to Vukovar, Croatia, was made in 2000 as part of a degree project looking at the post-war recovery of the town. A second visit the following year was commissioned by BBC Wales to mark the tenth anniversary of the siege of Vukovar - a period which saw an estimated half a million shells drop on the town in what the writer, Misha Glenny, has described as "a crime without parallel in post-war Europe".
Colin Dutton’s photographs are quiet and suggestive, often using symbolism through environmental details. They are intended to provide a counter to the drama of traditional media images, suggesting a slower persistence of war, its effects and its memory, well beyond the limited time span of the ‘news event’.
The photographs centre around the Borovo Shoe Factory on the outskirts of Vukovar, once employing 23,000 workers, now largely destroyed but still operating. As such the factory can be seen to represent many of the problems facing Vukovar as a whole as it tries to re-build in the face of continuing social and economic uncertainties.
This work was recently shown in Pristina, Kosovo, where Colin has been invited to undertake a photographic project on the theme of identity. His personal work will also take him to the Czech Republic later this year for a series based around the novels of Bohumil Hrabal.
Having taken a degree in documentary photography at the University of Wales College, Newport in 2001, Colin now lives in northern Italy where he works on editorial and corporate assignments in addition to carrying out his personal work. |
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