Shot in the lens - "Broken Landscape", a monument to Gordan Lederer
One of the most beautiful memorials to the victims of the Homeland War is the monument to photographer and cameraman Gordan Lederer. One year ago, on the 24th anniversary of Lederer's death, in August 2015, a monument called "Broken Landscape" was presented to the public, by the sculptor Petar Barišić and the architectural studio NFO. The monument was erected near Hrvatska Kostajnica, on the Čukur hill, exactly where Lederer died, at his workplace, suffering from a sniper shot while filming Croatian soldiers in action during the Serbian attacks on Pounje, in August 1991 at 33. year.
Monument "Broken Landscape" The memorial to Gordan Lederer is made in the form of a huge photographic lens, inside which the large lens is cracked, broken and shot by a sniper's bullet, symbolizing Lederer's death itself, the death of a cameraman who died "armed" only with his camera. Designed in this way, the monument represents an authentic testimony of the death of cameramen and journalists, but at the same time it symbolizes the raw force of weapons, stopped reporting and recording the truth about the Homeland War. With this, the monument is dedicated not only to Lederer, but also to other photographers, videographers and journalists who died during the war.