Close to Portonovi Book

Once a military barracks, now a luxury resort – the book Close to Portonovi explores the transformation of the former Orjenski Bataljon military site in Kumbor into the tourist destination Portonovi Montenegro. Through internet forum posts from former Yugoslav People’s Army conscripts and a photo series by Zara Pfeifer, the book captures the tension between past and present, memory and reinvention.

Close to Portonovi, 2024
Photography: Zara Pfeifer
Text: Antonia Dika
Design: Daily Dialogue
112 pages
53 color images
21×14,8 cm
Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-901112-99-7

The book is a follow-up to the work Close to Portonovi, by Pfeifer and Dika, realized within the framework of the FWF-funded research project Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism: The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise. The book project was supported by the University of Art and Design Linz.

Book review by Der Greif
Available through Softcover