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[Katherine Carl]

Hello LHE participants and all interested in the next phases of LHE,

Thank you to everyone who submitted photographs in the open call for  
the Lost Highway Expedition Photo Book. Work is progressing, and the  
first selection of approximately 700 photos can now be viewed. At  
this time we invite anyone who is interested to be part of the  
process to write captions and further edit the photographs in the  
next 10 days. If you would like to do this or have questions, please  
send an email to Katherine Carl katherine at thenao.net or Srdjan  
Jovanovic Weiss srdjanweiss at thenao.net

We look forward to working together with you further!

best wishes,

Katherine and Srdjan





Lost Highway Expedition Photo Book



Lost Highway Expedition Photo Book is a selection of captioned  
photographs contributed by participants in the Lost Highway  
Expedition, which took place in August 2006 through the Western  
Balkans including the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Albania.  
The photo book contains approximately 240 pages filled with full  
color images and captions and a brief introduction. The photo book  
has 27 sections, one for each day of the expedition; each day is  
represented with 8 pages.



The expedition plotted a route roughly along the unfinished ‘Highway  
of Brotherhood and Unity’ as it was called in Yugoslav times,  
traveling to the nine cities of Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novi Sad,  
Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Tirana, Podgorica, and Sarajevo in the  
Western Balkans. Although the country that this highway was meant to  
unify no longer exists, the highway infrastructure remains as a  
significant reminder of the ideals of voluntary participation,  
rebuilding and connectivity. Today as the highway is being expanded  
and the region is experiencing a different wave of building executed  
from individual initiative, the expedition set out to find out more  
about these processes and to speculate about its future.



During Lost Highway Expedition over 200 people from around Europe,  
the local region, and North and South America participated along the  
route with partner organizations in each city in activities ranging  
from discussions, public art actions, guided tours, visits to  
archives, and picnics. As everyone organized their own journey, the  
makeup of the group was different in each city. Yet it temporarily  
cohered around points of common interest to investigate the abrupt  
and continuing structural and visual transformation of these cities  
that is both the result and the engine of the changing urban,  
economic, and social realities of the Western Balkans and of the  
future of Europe.



The photo book chronicles each day of the expedition from a multitude  
of mobile views. The format is unique as every day has its own  
organizing principle. Recurrent topics for investigation that become  
are taken up as a focus for individual days include self- 
organization, independent and official building projects, memory and  
future, unfinished projects, temporary society, self-organization,  
massive movement, urban blocks, monuments, simple solutions, next  
generation, vistas, excess, floating structures, and more. Also  
specific concerns of each city, like independence, sin city,  
parallelism, or solidarity thread through the chronological order of  
the book’s several hundred photos making apparent the relay of  
connections that exist between the cities.



Photographs were solicited from Lost Highway Expedition participants  
in an open call, garnering more than 24,000 images. Several hundred  
photos make up the publication and work is included from each person  
who made a submission. The book has been edited to select images that  
convey an understanding of a specific place along the expedition  
route through a striking simplicity of visual means. This results in  
an in-depth visual document of the region with a focus on the present  
state of urban and highway ‘scapes which provide a glimpse at the  
future of the visual and spatial makeup of the Western Balkans.



Lost Highway Expedition Photo Book is a samizdat by Centrala  
Foundation for Future Cities and School of Missing Studies and is  
part of the project Europe Lost and Found.



Authors: Kasper Akhoj, Azra Aksamija, Artingeneering, Stefanie Busch,  
Yane Calovski, Katherine Carl, Ana Dzokic, Giulia Fiocca, Barbara  
Galassi, Hristina Ivanoska, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Susanne Kass,  
Ivan Kucina, Hugo Lammerink, Kavior Moon, Helge Mooshammer, Peter  
Mortenbock, Marc Neelen, Angel Nevarez, Jaume Nualert, Pilar Ortiz,  
Aleksandra Petrusevska, Marjetica Potrc, Kyong Park, Vahida Ramujkic,  
Arnoud Schuurman, Laia Sole, Valerie Tevere, Paola Velasquez, Velimir  
Zernovski.



Editorial Board: Azra Aksamija, Yane Calovski, Ana Dzokic, Alenka  
Gregoric, Hristina Ivanoska, Ivan Kucina, Kavior Moon, Marc Neelen,  
Marjetica Potrc, Kyong Park, Patrick Ward,



Editors: Katherine Carl, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

Technical Director and Design: Ajdin Basic

Proofreading & Redaction: Kavior Moon

Coordination: Skuc Gallery

This publication is made possible with support from the Ministry of  
Foreign Affairs of Slovenia. Additional support provided by Ministry  
of Culture of Serbia and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Distributor: Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam

Printer: TBD

Number of pages: 240

Full color, 18 cm x 21 cm

Print run: 1500

Release date: October 2007

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