Overnight Generation (SIGNED)
Photographs by Italo Morales
Text by Federico Sicurella, Haris Selmanagic
Design by Francesco Vedovato
Verlag Kettler, 2012
Edition of 600 numbered copies
Hardcover with dust jacket
128 pp., 82 color illustrations
160 x 200 mm
ISBN 978-3-86206-211-9
Item #0431
Winner Photobook Slam Berlin 2012, Finalist at New York Photo Awards 2012
Shortlisted to Dummy Book Award 2012 (5th International Kassel Fotobook Festival)
Overnight Generation is a post-clash reportage over the complex shades that being young adults can assume in the contemporary Sarajevo. A research on a fascinating, complex, and often unknown european capital, plagued by what has been acknowledged as the longest siege in modern history.
It appears to be a common belief that Sarajevo is recovering from its post-war trauma, but is that true? And what happened to the children of the conflict? Unlike other efforts that have been done in the same geographical context, Overnight Generation does not aim to expose the performative rage of an armed struggle, but rather to portrait the evidence of a more subtle violence: the ordinary drama of a post-war existence. A subtle curse that follows every of the young citizens that had to hide his or her best year behind the curtain of the conflict, and grow up overnight, while we were asleep.
Overnight Generation is a book which intent is not to allocate blame, but rather to portrait the efforts of a group of fellows, that sometimes could not have the chance to do things better, but in most of the cases exceeded all the expectations. It is a tribute to Sarajevo and to its young citizens: an insight into the lives of those affected by the war, an analysis on how its consequences have grown into a generational disease.