Nikos Economopoulos (1953) returned to where it all began: The Balkans. In Bosnia, he photographed the weapon that fired the first shot of the war, and in Macedonia, a cemetery for over a thousand Serbian soldiers. In Turkey he visited the site where the Battle of Gallipoli is commemorated. He links these images seamlessly with scenes from Athens today: ‘The same portents. Fear and despair. Poverty and insecurity ... Let it be a warning.’

This story is part of a group Magnum project, The First World War Now.