Cornelia Suhan’s Silent Witness brings together photographs of private houses and public buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina where war crimes — specifically rapes of women of all ethnic groups — were committed during the Bosnian War (1992–1995). These buildings, photographed by Suhan, are the silent witnesses. Her images are combined with testimonies from women who survived, allowing the stories to be told without exposing those affected to the public again.

The book’s approach rests on a stated proposition: a war is not over when the weapons are silent. Suhan photographs the architecture — the houses and institutions — rather than the survivors themselves, shifting the visual record onto the built environment while the testimonies carry what the images alone cannot. The publisher describes the photographs as allowing the stories to be told without re-exposing those affected. This is not a portrait series of survivors, nor a conventional documentary record of atrocity, but a mediated form of witness in which the buildings serve as the entry point.

GOST Books published the volume in 2024. The publisher specifies a 192-page hardback. The book is in English and carries ISBN 9781915423214. Suhan is credited as the photographer, and the publisher’s credit covers the complete photographic content. The testimonies are integral to the project and are described by the publisher as part of the book’s content, though no separate authored contributor is credited in the available evidence.

For readers interested in photography that engages the aftermath of conflict, in the ethics of representing gendered violence, or in the documentary book as a form of witness, Silent Witness is a considered work by a photographer who has thought carefully about what an image should and should not do. Its subject places it alongside ongoing European reckonings with the Bosnian War.