Stockholm with Serbian eyes and Belgrade through a Swedish lens. Serbian photographer Sanja Knezevic and her Swedish colleague Agnete Bretan have spent the autumn taking pictures of one another’s capital cities. The result can be seen in the photography exhibition Applied Nostalgia, which is on show at the Dom Omladine cultural centre in Belgrade in December.

The exhibition was opened in Belgrade on 15 December by Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic and Swedish State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Frank Belfrage, and comprises 30 photographs by Sanja Knezevic and Agnete Bretan. Applied Nostalgia is a project that is organised twice a year, always with pictures produced by one photographer from Serbia and one from the country holding the Presidency of the EU. The current exhibition is organised by the Swedish Embassy in Belgrade and the Serbian Ministry of European Integration in collaboration with the Dom Omladine cultural centre.

In connection with the opening, Sweden celebrates the visa liberalisation which comes into effect on 19 December, and also rounds off the Swedish EU Presidency by handing over the baton to Spanish Ambassador and European Commissioner Vincent Degert.