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, University of Zagreb|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 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.