Photography by Bosnic+Dorotic
In 2014, a public competition was announced by Croatian Radiotelevision – HRT, to find someone to design the Gordan Lederer Memorial, to mark all the locations where HRT cameramen and photographers were killed during the war in Croatia in the 90’s.
Photography by Bosnic+Dorotic
The competition was won by architecture studio NFO and sculptor Petar Barišic, with their proposal called ‘Broken Landscape’.
Photography by Bosnic+Dorotic
The memorial, now complete, has been positioned on Cukur Hill, which offers amazing view of the Una River Valley.
Photography by Bosnic+Dorotic
The memorial represents the lens of a camera, that has been pierced by a snipers bullet.
Photography by Bosnic+Dorotic
The path, designed as milestones of Lederer’s life, has concrete slabs ‘’chained’’ in black steel frames, each engraved with the year of Lederer’s life in negative, as an interpretation of film frames.
Photography by Bosnic+Dorotic
The lens directs visitors to view the valley as Gordan Lederer did, when he took his ‘last shots’, and confronts them with the reality of events that occurred at the location.
Photography by Bosnic+Dorotic
At the same time, the perfect stainless steel circle suggests the continuity of life, framing the view of the same landscape filmed 24 years ago at the same place.
Photography by Boris Kovacev / CROPIX
The memorial was unveiled in August on the 24th anniversary of Lederer’s death.
Photography by Boris Kovacev / CROPIX
Below is a close-up look at the sniper shot that pierces the glass membrane.
