Pavo Urban


Pavo Urban 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.
However, instead of attending the Academy he briefly joined the Croatian War of Independence as a volunteer fighting in Župa dubrovačka, and then he started photographing the Siege of Dubrovnik for the Dubrovacki Vjesnik, the Slobodna Dalmacija 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.

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 has been shown in several exhibitions.