# Everyday objects, tragic histories

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2014
- Speaker: Ziyah Gafić
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ziyah_gafic_everyday_objects_tragic_histories)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Ziyah Gafić photographs everyday objects—watches, shoes, glasses. But these images are deceptively simple; the items in them have been exhumed from the mass graves of the Bosnian War. Gafić, a TED Fellow and Sarajevo native, is photographing every item from these graves in order to create a living archive of the identities of those lost.

## Lectures

1. [Everyday objects, tragic histories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ziyah_gafic_everyday_objects_tragic_histories/20a519ad8a15), 5 min (TED's player)