The little girl with pearls
In the 1990s, many people fled the terrible war in Yugoslavia, and some of them came all the way to Iceland. At that time, I was working as a photographer for the newspaper and was sent to welcome the group in Blönduós in June 1998 and capture the event on film. This group of 23 people, including women, men, and children, was well received there. The project was both interesting and joyful, but it was one June evening that we, journalist Sigríður B. Tómasdóttir, met the group in the town's community center and then accompanied the Popovic family to their new home at Mýrarbraut 16. The family included the father Zeljko, the mother Radmila, the son Bosko, eight years old, and the daughter Nikolina, six years old, who had come here to escape the war and seek a better life.