For 15 years I lived in a rented apartment in Pešča, a neighborhood in Zagreb. After buying my own place I left a building which became very precious to me. I moved in as a freshman student and over time I became part of a new community, perhaps even a new family. What began as common human interaction to ease the feeling of isolation, since I’ve been working from home for some years now, became a long-term process of befriending individuals of various lifestyles, religious beliefs and political ideologies. My story of living in the building is an eclectic collage of spontaneous events, interiors and idiosyncratic individuals between which developed an unexpected closeness. These photographs and texts are a tiny segment of a grander, intimate production of communal living that included laughter, tears, exhaustion, forgiveness, trust, support, embracing differences, creating a feeling of home and lessons needed (and learned) for personal growth. They are an attempt to portray all the wonderful, living color of Planinska 7.
