While a law student, the Croat Denis Markic (b. 1961) was already active in various photographic organisations in Mostar and Sarajevo. In addition he took training to be a photography teacher. In the early 1990s he ended up in Leeuwarden. Since then he has been active as a photographer for many organisations and training centres in Friesland. With the series 'Self-portraits' Markic reaches back to the period before 1990, when both his homeland and he himself went through bad times. Many photographs recall the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Further, he made prints of his face by pressing photographic paper with chemicals against his face. Markic sees this form of self-destruction as a sort of cleansing process, a visual and symbolic exorcism.