Sarajevo Siege Photo Stirs Distant, Dark Memories
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- January 30, 2013
It's autumn 1992, and Sarajevo residents are scavenging whatever firewood they can after gas and electric supplies have been cut off. AFP photographer Patrick Baz, newly arrived on the scene, shoots a picture of a gaunt young man hauling wood, about six months after the start of the siege of the city. Twenty years later, that image has taken on a new life of its own.
