Beneath the Border, Anchorage: Relations to Time on the Balkan Routes

Photography accompanied my PhD thesis on the migration control system externalised by the European Union (EU) in the Balkans (Dujmovic, 2019). My work with images fed into the theoretical project of documenting border mechanisms that are both material and mental, and which I defined as anchorages and mirages of the control system. The use of photography enabled me both to retrace how the logics of control are materially anchored in social space and to deconstruct the visual and graphic proce...