(Haviv, R. (1992), ‘Bosnia’) “It can take time for even the most shocking images to have an effect, The war in Bosnia had not yet begun when American Ron Haviv took this picture of a Serb kicking a Muslim woman who had been shot by Serb forces… [by the end of the conflict] almost 100,000 people lost their lives. Before his assassination in 2000, Arkan was indicted for crimes against humanity. Haviv’s image was used as evidence against him and other perpetrators of what became known as ethnic cleansing” (Haviv R., 1992 ‘Bosnia’) The image of a shot Muslim woman being kicked in the head is abrasive and horrifying. It shows a very small but important part of the Bosnian conflict and in essence, demonstrates the violation of Human Rights that occurred throughout the dismantlement of Yugoslavia. Not only were the Bosnian Serbs and the war itself in direct violation of the United Nations’ Univers
Zwischen Immer und Nie. Between Always and Never. A concept that stems from the neverending summer in which a moment of time is held in infinity but also nothing. Within ‘Call me by your name’ the notion relates to a relationship that stemmed from emotion expressed through silence and understated behaviour. The two main characters that the novel is centred around are Elio and Oliver. Elio is the 17-year old, trilingual, musical genius, son of an Italian philosophy professor and Oliver is characterised as the 24-year old, American graduate who is spending the summer in Italy under the supervision of Elio’s father whilst working on his manuscript for his studies. Andre Aciman captures the essence of summer ‘somewhere in Northern Italy’ in 1983, in which the scenery of Monet’s Berm encapsulates a moment of everything, every emotion, every unsaid thought between the characters of Elio and Oliver, and suspends it in a bubble of happiness, sensuality, and summertime. How