Yugoslavia in October 2000, part two

There is a lot of local produce at the farmers market, butthe prices are in general too high for the majority of people. The sugar in the state owned shops is still cheap; but then,the queues are very long. Sugar can always be bought on blackmarket, but many people, especially pensionists, can'tafford the black market prices.

Playing cards with grandmother; she is still very good atit, even though she keeps saying that at 86 she is too oldfor anything (and then goes out to chop some firewood), andshe tries to cheat.

With grandmother. My uncle Lali is making bullets for his hunting rifles.

   

With my little cousin Ivana.

   

Grandmother and then grandmothers cat (the kitten hadadopted this teddy bear as a replacement for her brotherwho disappeared some time ago).

   

Some more family photographs from Becej: Ivana with Karciand Andreas, and Laci's family.

Demonstrating at the Miletic Square, or rather,celebrating. The corals on some of the photographs are dueto my amazing clumsiness: the film I have used this eveningin Novi Sad is the same one as the one that I have shotunder water during a scuba dive in Cuba. And the photosoverlap at half, and they are upside down relative to eachother. Murphy's laws of photography says this must happen tothe two sets of photographs one cherishes the most.

   

I liked these cats - could not tell where one ends and theother begins. It was a chilly, early in the morning, andthey were keeping each other warm.

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Silvija Seres, November 2000