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Old Town, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Step back in time and immerse yourself in the captivating beauty of Old Town, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Explore the ancient walls, charming cobblestone streets, and breathtaking architecture.
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The Old Town of Dubrovnik in Croatia
Get lost in the narrow streets and vibrant atmosphere of the Old Town of Dubrovnik in Croatia - an unforgettable journey through centuries of culture and tradition.
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Welcome.
Nearly a year has gone by since I left for the journey that was made possible by the Young Traveling Scholarship, a road trip that would take me through the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. It was a wonderful experience. Thanks again Monika Göttler, Dr. Matthias Ripp, and the whole Organization for World Heritage Cities.
A few words about this website:
A visitor to this page may find themselves looking hard for World Heritage in the photographs here. They are there, I swear, but more often than not as a part of the background. I thought I’d take this opportunity to say a little about this, as it actually has a great deal to do with some thinking I’ve been doing about World Heritage in general.
When I set out last September, my plan was to make a kind of radio show, with interviews, soundscapes and reflections from the journey. I’m sure this would have been great, but it wasn’t meant to be: my recorder proceeded to break in Warsaw, my first stop. After looking at the costs of a replacement and the costs of fixing it, I decided that instead of working with sound, I’d just concentrate a bit more on the blog writing and on taking pictures. Only, as soon as I visited my first World Heritage site I encountered the next problem: I wasn’t really sure what the point of taking pictures of World Heritage sites was.
Let me explain: It wasn’t that they weren’t beautiful, or moving. Not at all. It was rather that I was already surrounded by cameras everywhere I went, taking loads of pictures. More often than not it was even the same picture, same framing. What good was it to take another?
I should usher a disclaimed that I’m not being cynical or judgmental: I too love a good vacation snap. All I’m saying is that there is no lack of photographs in 2023. We could, if we wished, see any of the heritage sites I visited from every conceivable angle, in every season, at any time of day. A quick search on Instagram of the #mostarbridge will bring up, as of today, 70,053 images, #dubrovnikoldtown, 299,828, and these are only a small percentage of the total pictures out there. So what keeps us visiting heritage sites? What keeps us traveling at all? It must be all that which we cannot capture in a photograph: the whole that is greater than the sum of it’s parts. Which include their political, situational, emotional, audible, tactile, olfactory dimensions, the atmosphere of their surroundings, stories told about them, and people. People who visit, people work there, and people live nearby. In the end it was all of was these left over, intangible things that really left the deepest impression on me. I think I came the closest to describing this in the blog writing I did, but even that is far from perfect.
Because World Heritage sites do not exist inside the confines of museums, they have the benefit of taking a part in the regular human drama that unfolds on their doorsteps. They become a part of the city, separate but also in dialogue with everything. So what happens in the suburbs, in parliament, in the surrounding countryside is relevant. What happens to people, how they live, how they make ends meet is of the utmost importance. Maybe that’s why my camera often wandered to them.
St. Augustine wrote that there were three times: ‘A present of things past, a present of things present, and a present of things future.’ It is these three times which I came in constant contact with when visiting World Heritage, and these three times which proved a challenge to capture in a photograph.
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