Minister Bozinovic opened exhibition of photographs in Varazdin

The exhibition was organized jointly by the Croatian Defence Ministry and the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and with the support of the City of Varazdin and Varazdin County, and the exhibition includes thirty photographs taken in international peacekeeping operations and missions in which participate members of the Croatian and British armed forces. The selected photographs were previously presented in Split (September 2009), and Zagreb (January 2010). The exhibited photos recorded scenes from the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, MINURCAT in Chad, OP TELIC in Iraq, etc.

British authors are the British military photographers, while Croatian side is represented by Tomislav Brandt, photographer of Croatian military magazines and MOD employee whose photos were published in two photomonographs. Scenes of Afghanistan and Chad recorded by Brandt’s lens are an example of top-of documentary blending of journalistic, artistic and aesthetic principles. Opening the exhibition and congratulating the authors for their efforts and achieved impressive results, Minister Bozinovic said: “This, Varazdin exhibition, is just one of the proofs of how from documentary photography often happen arts. Looking at these photos, we are witnessing these claims”, Bozinovic said and added “This exhibition demonstrates the strength and firmness of the British-Croatian alliance, genuine cooperation and friendship. It’s an alliance that began during World War II, continued and reported many times in modern Croatian history in defence and establishing of the new Croatian state, and the power of this alliance came to the fore in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan”.

When addressing the present, Ambassador David Blunt expressed his satisfaction over the successful cooperation in the organization of the exhibition, and emphasized the successful cooperation of British and Croatian armed forces in peacekeeping missions and concluded that “Croatian Armed Forces have many reasons to be proud of what they have achieved in the last twenty years “.

The photo exhibition “British and Croatian allied forces in the service of peace” will be set in Varazdin till April 20 and its tour is possible during working hours of Herzer Palace.