
The illustration exhibition “We Did What We Could, Remember Us,” dedicated to journalists killed in Gaza, opened in Šibenik on December 23. The Trade Union of Croatian Journalists’ initiated the exhibition and brought it to Šibenik by the cultural association Fotopoetika, following its presentations in Zagreb and Belgrade.
From May 14 to July 18, 2024, the Croatian Journalists’ Union shared illustrations on social media depicting media workers killed in Gaza. The victims included reporters, editors, camera operators, secretaries, drivers, and other workers essential to creating and maintaining media. The initiative was later joined by the Association of Journalists of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Slovenian Journalists’ Union, who also shared the illustrations on their platforms. The exhibition was first opened in Zagreb, then in Belgrade, and now in Šibenik.
To recall, over the past year, from October 7, 2023, at least 42,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including at least 180 journalists, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. “The Israeli occupation continues to commit massacres against Palestinian journalism, striving to silence witnesses of the truth and obscure the voices and images of the massacres inflicted on the Palestinian people across all territories, especially in the Gaza Strip,” wrote colleagues from the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
Through this exhibition, we aim to amplify their voices, honour the memory of the slain journalists and the circumstances of their deaths, and preserve the values they lived for and advocated through their work—resistance against repression, censorship, occupation, and genocide.
The exhibition can be visited at the Museum of Victory and Liberation of Dalmatia in World War II (Fra Nikola Ružić Street 1) until Saturday, December 28 (inclusive).
The illustrators featured in the exhibition are Ena Jurov, Mirjana Radovanović, Sead Kartal, Ivana Armanini, Lovro Škiljić, Luka Duplančić, Marko Dješka, Nikolina Fuzul, Apolonija Lučić, KLARXY, Hana Tintor, Agata Lučić, Tea Jurišić, Miron Milić, Ivona Cvitković, and Miloš Miletić.
Photo: Sanja Junaković





