1) What camera do you use?
I use Hasselblad 501 CM, Leica m6 and Shen-Hao
2) What is your favourite filmstock?
I don't have a favourite film, but I work with Provia 100F very often.
3) For the photos submitted, why are they your favourite?
I submitted photos from my series Infertile Grounds which deals with the culture of memory in Croatia.
I was interested by places that political rhetoric had used copiously in inflammatory speeches during the 90s, places of institutionalised memory as well as those that had never been marked by a single memorial plaque. As after World War II, so after the war in the former Yugoslavia, the politics of memory labelled what needed remembering, and suppressed what it was desirable to forget. Each party in the conflict has the need to commemorate only its own victims and deny the right of the other party its memories.
In the Infertile Grounds series I endeavour to create a place of memory within the space of the photograph, an alternative memento that is not created by ideology, rather by the need to open up the space of remembrance for victims who are never going to acquire their own space in the official culture of memory.
Sandra Vitaljić