Remains of Peaceful Life documentary landscape of a Serbian village woodland by Lunar Lens Creative Agency

Remains of Peaceful Life

Photography · July 2020

Remains of Peaceful Life Serbian village road and hillside homes by Lunar Lens Creative Agency
Remains of Peaceful Life old Serbian village house with a tiled roof by Lunar Lens Creative Agency
PeriodJuly 2020
LocationSerbia
ConceptDocumentary

In a small village in Serbia, most houses now stand empty, left behind by generations who traded the countryside for the promise of a faster, modern kind of life. What's left behind isn't ruin so much as a pause; doorways still holding their shape, rooms still arranged for people who never came back. It's a kind of peace that outlasted the people who left.

Remains of Peaceful Life rural cornfield and woodland path in Serbia by Lunar Lens Creative Agency
Remains of Peaceful Life stacked firewood in a Serbian village forest by Lunar Lens Creative Agency
Remains of Peaceful Life cornfield beside dense village woodland by Lunar Lens Creative Agency

This series sits inside that stillness on purpose. It was made in the years just before the rest of the world rediscovered what that kind of peace is worth, while everyone else was still chasing the corporate dream in the big city.

In a world filled with urgency, we long for peace. This series asks the audience to think about what it feels like to slow down and stay still, and, most importantly, to sit with the question: what are we all rushing toward?

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