Urbanization in Serbia Despite widespread migration to urban areas in Serbia, some communities maintain traditions.By The Globalist, March 22, 2015 Goran Stamenkovic / The Other Hundred Takeaways - Despite widespread migration to urban areas in Serbia, some communities maintain traditions. Six photos portray traditional rural life in Serbia.
Goran Stamenkovic was born in 1963. Living in Serbia, by profession he is a veterinarian, while photography is his favorite hobby. He is a member of the Photo Association of Serbia and has participated in more than 100 exhibitions in the country and abroad.• • •Serbia is experiencing a huge migration of people from the countryside to cities. With almost three-quarters of households employed in agriculture living below the poverty line, villages are dying and many younger rural residents, especially in the south, are migrating to Belgrade and other cities of the north in search of work and other opportunities. But in places, some traditional customs and ways of life remain.Text and photographs by Goran StamenkovicEnlargeSlavko Jokic, 49, a vet in the village of Mokrin, poses as one of the local shepherds whose sheep he helps to keep in good health.EnlargeZivko Golic chats with his granddaughter, also in Mokrin. As more and more families with young children abandon the countryside for city life, such a sight is increasingly rare in rural Serbia.EnlargeMile Buncic is the only blacksmith in Basaid and its surrounding villages. He works to earn a little to support his retirement, but with few horses left in his district, he has little to do. EnlargeRadunka Stamenkovic, a housewife in Lipovica, starts her day with the washing up and preparing lunch. Her home has electricity, but it is only used for lighting and her radio. To heat water she still uses her woodburning stove the whole year round.EnlargeEnlargeGoran Stamenkovic was born in 1963. Living in Serbia, by profession he is a veterinarian, while photography is his favorite hobby. He is a member of the Photo Association of Serbia and has participated in more than 100 exhibitions in the country and abroad.The Other Hundred is a unique photo-book project (order here) aimed as a counterpoint to the Forbes 100 and other media rich lists by telling the stories of people around the world who are not rich but who deserve to be celebrated. Its 100 photo-stories move beyond the stereotypes and cliches that fill so much of the world’s media to explore the lives of people whose aspirations and achievements are at least as noteworthy as any member of the world’s richest 1,000. Selected from 11,000 images shot in 158 countries and submitted by nearly 1,500 photographers, The Other Hundred celebrates those who will never find themselves on the world’s rich lists or celebrity websites. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/senet. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
