Nova Jugoslavija – Marko Krojač

After a month of printing, cutting, folding, binding we are ready to release this mastodon new book by Berlin-based photographer and Yugoslav monument arhiver Marko Krojač. Screen printed and hand bound in an edition of 100, NOVA JUGOSLAVIJA has been created with a lot of stubborn love during a month long residency in Kortedala. The book contains a candy collection of Marko’s photo documentation of Yugoslav revolutionary monuments in different states of decay and glory. Four sheets of paper, twenty-something screens, 72 pages that flip and fold like butterfly wings, hand sewn binding with glued spine, wrap cover in gold each adorned with a vintage Yugoslavian lapel pin of marshal Tito’s signature.

Marko Krojač learned photography on the streets of Berlin in the early 90’s as a part of the squatting movement. In the early 2000’s Marko’s base was in Pančevo/Belgrade and he started criss-crossing the map of ex-Yugoslavia with his camera, creating a close-to-complete arhive of the decaying monument heritage of the former socialist republic. Since 2013 he is a member of the Berlin screenprint collective Czentrifuga and continue to explore photography through printmaking, hand coloring and book binding.