Pavo Urban (1 August 1968 – 6 December 1991) was a Croatian photographer, killed during the
Croatian War of Independence.
Biography
He attended the Dubrovnik Maritime College. He started doing photographs in the high school, and was accepted in the photography department of the
Academy of Dramatic Art of the
University of Zagreb
The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...
.
However, instead of attending the Academy he briefly joined the
Croatian War of Independence as a volunteer fighting in
Župa dubrovačka
A župa (or zhupa, županija) is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "parish", later synonymous "kotar", commonly transla ...
, and then he started photographing the
Siege of Dubrovnik for the ''Dubrovacki Vjesnik'', the ''
Slobodna Dalmacija
''Slobodna Dalmacija'' () is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split.
The first issue of ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' was published on 17 June 1943 by Tito's Partisans in an abandoned stone barn on Mosor, a mountain near Split, while the cit ...
'' and the Croatian Ministry of Information, documenting the shelling and its consequences.
In the morning of 6 December 1991 he was deadly hit by a shell fragment while he was taking his last photographs.
The last photo of Pavo Urban, 6 December 1991. A moment later he was shot dead by shrapnels from Serbian and Montenegrin shelling. He was alone at that time of the bombing.
Heritage
Part of his work, including a series of 12 photos he took just before he was killed, his now part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik. His photographs have been shown in several exhibitions.
See also
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List of journalists killed in Europe
This is a list of journalists killed in Europe (as a continent), divided by country.
While journalists in the European Union (EU) generally work in good conditions, there are cases of murdered journalists, and many of them remain unpunished. Thi ...
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Gordan Lederer
References
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1958 births
1991 deaths
Croatian photographers
Civilians killed in the Croatian War of Independence
Journalists killed while covering the Yugoslav Wars
People from Dubrovnik