Recently I spoke with Brooklyn-based photographer Michael Schmelling about the curious stories behind two of his most recent projects and about his relationship with photography in general

The excitement of seeing those images for the first time, and the beauty of them being captured on film, was well worth the wait.

In an orgy of savage violence Radovan Karadzic’s forces slaughtered tens of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian war. He called it ethnic cleansing.