NFO designs giant broken camera lens to honour photojournalist killed in Yugoslav Wars
An oversized camera lens punctuated by a single bullet hole forms the Broken Landscape memorial dedicated to photographer Gordan Lederer (+ slideshow).
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Designed by Croatian architecture firm NFO, the circular memorial sits at the top of Čukur hill in Banovina, Croatia, where the photographer was shot by a sniper in 1991.
Lederer worked as a cameraman for Croatian Radiotelevision and covered the Croatian War of Independence around the country.
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His profession is reflected in the giant stainless steel ring, which encloses a circular panel of cracked and broken glass.
Leading up to the memorial is a curving pathway made of concrete slabs placed in black steel frames. Designed to resemble film frames, each of these represents a year of Lederer's life.
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NFO worked with sculptor Petar Barišić on the structure, which was unveiled in August 2015 to mark the 24th anniversary of the photographer's death.
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"The path goes tensely through natural terrain leading to the last slab, a memorial plateau without a number, representing the year of his death," said the firm, which has also designed a town square in Croatia.
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"The glass membrane, pierced with a shot from a sniper, stops visitors' glance for a moment and confronts them with the reality of events on that location," added NFO.
"At the same time, the perfect stainless steel circle suggests the continuity of life, framing a view of the same landscape filmed 24 years ago at the same place."
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In addition to Lederer's death, the structure also commemorates the locations fellow Croatian cameramen and photographers were killed during the conflict, which took place between 1991 and 1995.
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Other recently opened memorials include a fan-shaped stone structure commemorating the earthquake in Japan and a rusting steel tower in Italy that remembers the Holocaust by evoking a feeling of oppression.
Photography is by Bosnić + Dorotić.