When Bruce Strong first arrived in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was struck by how much life had moved forward since the haunting images of war that once defined the region.

The associate professor of visual communications at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications had come to the Balkans with a question: what does everyday life look like three decades after such a devastating conflict?

That question led to “Call to Me, Balkans,” a photography exhibition which opened Nov. 6 in the Panasci Lounge at Syracuse University’s Schine Student Center. Photographed by Bruce Strong and curated as well as designed by Strong’s wife and Newhouse colleague, Claudia Strong, the show coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Accords, which ended

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