Pavo Urban (1 August 1968 – 6 December 1991) was a Croatian photographer, killed during the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

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 (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...

. However, instead of attending the Academy he briefly joined the

as a volunteer fighting in

Župa dubrovačka Župa Dubrovačka is a municipality and a valley located in Dubrovnik-Neretva County in south-eastern Croatia. Župa Dubrovačka stretches between Dubrovnik, the old ''Ragusa'' in the west and Cavtat, the ancient Epidaurus in the east, between ...

, and then he started photographing the

Siege of Dubrovnik The siege of Dubrovnik ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, opsada Dubrovnika, опсада Дубровника) was a military engagement fought between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Croatian forces defending the city of Dubrovnik and its surroundings dur ...

for the ''Dubrovacki Vjesnik'', the ''

Slobodna Dalmacija (, where "Free" is an adjective) is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Split. History was first issued on 17 June 1943 by Tito's Partisans in an abandoned stone barn on Mosor, a mountain near Split, while the city was occupied by the I ...

'' and the Croatian Ministry of Information, documenting the shelling and its consequences. In the morning of 6 December 1991 he was fatally 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 killed 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, is now part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik. His photographs have been shown in several exhibitions.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Urban, Pavo 1958 births 1991 deaths Croatian photographers Civilians killed in the Croatian War of Independence Journalists killed while covering the Yugoslav Wars People from Dubrovnik

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