War came to my neighbourhood when I was just 12 years old. My friends and I would swagger with the local militia fighters. I was too young to fight, but transfixed by the mechanical "glamour" of war. At 17 I swapped the Kalashnikov for a camera and became a photojournalist.
The Lebanese Civil War was multifaceted and complex, the parties involved included Sunni and Shia Muslims, Druzes, Christians, Palestinians, Syria and Israel. The war lasted from 1975 to 1990.
Photographs by Alexandra Boulat • Chris Morris • Claus Bjorn Larsen • Darko Bandic • Emanuel Ortiz • Jan Grarup • Jon Jones • Peter Northall • Ron Haviv • Tarik Samarah • Wade Goddard • Yannis Behrakis • Ziyah Gafic
our Limited Edition Print Room displays part of our larger collection of available prints from world renown photojournalists that documented past and ongoing global conflict for the worlds leading media organisations. All images have been printed on the highest quality papers using archival inks and have been signed by the photographers and come with a certificate of authenticity.
Opening Hours 2022
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April and October
everyday 10 am - 5 pm (last admission 4 pm)
May through September
everyday 10 am - 10 pm (last admission 9 pm)
November through March - Closed
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entrance fees
single 70.00 kn
student ID 40.00 kn
10+ (group) 50.00 kn
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The award reflects outstanding reviews in leading travel guides, magazines and newspapers.
“The world's only exhibition space devoted to war photography.” - Concierge
Experts' Choice is the only accolade based on professional reviews. It's awarded to fewer than 2% of eligible businesses and recognizes War Photo Limited as one of the very best attractions in Dubrovnik.
The photographs, brilliantly lighted on dark walls, range from the violent to the absurd. They include pictures of dozens of bodies, victims of the shelling of a Croatian city; artillery fire painting bright orange lines in the night sky; and a Serbian policeman offering water to an elderly Kosovar Albanian as his colleagues burn the old man's village down.
3 June 2004
The New York Times
The exciting modern gallery War Photo Limited is dedicated to photo-journalism from global war zones, and attempts to offer unbiased reporting with a human element. Dubrovnik's sturdy fortifications have been put to the test several times during the centuries, most recently during the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia – and indeed, on the second floor, there's a permanent exhibition devoted to photos from the war.
The Green Guide **
This exhibition space seeks to raise awareness and teach us about war photography. The idea is to show war as it really is - raw, corrupt and terrifying, as seen through the eyes of famous photographers, and stripped bare of aesthetics or ideology. The exhibitions address depictions of war around the world by exploring their similarities and differences, from Afghanistan to Sierra Leone, via Iraq and... Croatia.
*****Excellent exhibition. Well laid out with a clear and informative accompanying guide to put the exhibitions in context and give you some story behind the photos. It's a sobering moment but well worth investing an hour and the 50kuna entrance.
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Stark images by some of the world's best war photographers went on permanent display this week in Dubrovnik, stripping away Hollywood's gloss on war and the euphemisms of leaders who try to sanitise it. The War Photo exhibition is a vision of human conflict in the modern age that early visitors have called powerful, painful, beautiful, brutal, courageous and indispensable. |
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