The Unwanted Images project is dedicated to researching, digitizing, and preserving photographic records of the Partisan and antifascist struggle — images that today remain suppressed, lost, or erased from official history. Our mission is to confront ongoing historical revisionism and to restore the visibility of the antifascist legacy through publicly accessible archives, exhibitions, and educational programs. We work outside institutional frameworks, relying on solidarity, collaboration, and shared responsibility for preserving collective memory. So far, we have managed to safeguard more than 3,000 original photographic prints, negatives, and various related materials.

Gal Kirn, in his new book "The Memory of Liberation: Studies on the People's Liberation Struggle in the (Post-) Yugoslav Context" (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts), dedicates one chapter to photographic material from the Unwanted Images archive, in which he explores the representation of liberation, women, and partisan printing houses...

The year 2024 marks the 81th anniversary of the biggest and bloodiest battle fought by the Yugoslav National Liberation Army, also called the Partisan army, during World War Two. In the years that followed, countless stories and myths have been written about the Battle of Sutjeska, or the so called Fifth Enemy Offensive. However, such mythology is actually to be expected given the dramatic nature of the event itself.

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