Brkan & Betina – photography exhibition from the Collection of the Gallery of Fine Arts of the National Museum in Zadar, provides an insight into Ante Brkan’s impressions of Betina, captured during his three visits to the town in the second half of the 1950s. Besides the photographs depicting the landscapes of the town, residential, sacral and public architecture, and portraits of its citizens, this exhibition includes rather valuable shots testifying about the importance of shipbuilding in Betina in the middle of the last century, and those who contributed to the creation of that heritage as well.
Ante Brkan (1918-2004) was a multi-award winning photographer from Zadar, one of the founders of the international photography exhibition ”Man and the Sea” (together with his brother Zvonimir), and the first professional photo journalist in Zadar.
The creation of our museum’s permanent exhibition was made possible thanks to the photographs owned by Betina Shipyard that the author had taken during his visits.
