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Maja Munk graduated
from both Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1997. She
participated in the EPIIC year on The Future of Democracy and during the symposium
exhibited the photos that she had taken during a research trip to the Former Yugoslavia.
The house in the photograph above ("Woman in front of her home," 1996)
was destroyed by the Croation army.
"Although my original project had been to photograph people my own age, I became
much more interested in the older generation, those who had been children during
World War I, were adults and soldiers in World War II, and were once again experiencing
war in their last years. I was also interested in the minorities, who were for the
most part marginalized or ignored by the Western media, so I focused on Roma (Gypsies),
and on both Serbs and Croats living in the Krajina and Eastern Slavonia regions of
Croatia.
"While some of my projects were done independently, I mostly worked alongside
local human rights organizations. We would travel together, bringing food, other
necessities and forms (needed to gain citizenship, pensions, and other government
amenities) to isolated people, and investigating human rights abuses. "As universities
grow more and more segregated--economically, racially, and intellectually--EPIIC
has become a sanctuary for pluralism, a place where as long as you have done your
research and are prepared to debate, you can speak your mind. EPIIC has been a web
of support and a profound inspiration to me, a program which reminds all of us that
we, as young students, have a responsibility to strive for change."
EPIIC
has become a sanctuary for pluralism, a place where as long as you have done your
research and are prepared to debate, you can speak your mind.
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