In her series of self-portraits Behind The Scenes I and Behind the Scenes II, the artist shows images of herself as a teenager for the first time, taken during the siege of Sarajevo. Her testimonies are written over the photographs, the words barely visible. When looked at closely, they yield a different message than one might imagine. The photographs were taken in 1994 by Hannes M. Schlick for Magazine MODA Italy.

“This photo was taken during the hardest and most brutal part of my life. But the image shows something else. We try to imply deception in which our mind constantly functions. The culture we live in gives us the guidelines – points of understanding or total misunderstanding. I wonder what exactly do we see and what do we want to see from the vastness of images that are being imposed on us on an everyday basis.” Šejla Kamerić.