Day 09 Belgrade in Tri-X

Throughout my high school and early college years, I kept a darkroom in my bedroom or should I say I kept my bed in my darkroom? While other kids filled their rooms with posters, I filled mine with the smell of fixer and the soft drip of drying prints. My dad’s rangefinder was always around my neck, and for a long stretch of my life, the world existed only in black and white. Light and shadow. Shape and truth. Nothing extra.

Some ways of seeing the world never leave you.

So while Belgrade dazzles with cafés, colors, and the grandeur of its churches, what I really see comes alive only when I strip the world back to Tri-X tones. That gritty honesty. The beautiful imperfections. The texture of a city revealing itself without the distraction of color.

In these images you’ll find the real Belgrade as it appeared to me: the man resting alone on a park bench, leaning just enough to let the afternoon hold him… dog walkers being tugged in every direction like a living jazz rhythm… thick, wandering graffiti spreading across stone walls like the city’s heartbeat written in its own handwriting… and the streets themselves—cracked, textured, layered—carrying the stories of thousands of ordinary days.

Take a slow walk through these photographs. Let your eye linger on the shadows, the angles, the small human moments.

In monochrome, Belgrade feels raw, honest, and wonderfully alive—exactly the way I love to see the world.

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