Milena Sorée Award-Winning Poster: CROATIAN ROSE

Award-Winning Poster: CROATIAN ROSEWhimsical, gentle, a soft image of romance and old history captures your imagination. (32" long by 23" high).

CROATIAN ROSE was first displayed in the Capitol Hill Rotunda of the United States Congress in the Spring of 1996 as part of a stunning photographic essay by Milena Sorée entitled CROATIA: WAR AND PEACE.

In 1992 Sorée, an award-winning Croatian-American fine art photographer, went to Croatia to record the devastating events taking place and was given a chance of staying and photographing the frontline alongside a Croatian Army unit for eight months.
At the end, she had taken over 1300 images of which she chose 35 of the most poignant ones and exhibited them next to 35 other photographs showing peace and serenity of Old World Croatia chosen from her earlier body of work.Since then the Croatian Rose photograph has been selected by the Croatian American Association to be the "Croatian Freedom Award" because of its artistic representation of new life splendor rising out of death and decay; thus symbolizing the rebirth of the Croatian Nation.Milena has therefore dedicated a part of the sale proceeds from this poster to be donated to the FRIENDS OF VUKOVAR FUND, which is currently accepting donations for the restoration of the Home for Disabled Children in Vukovar, Croatia.

Milena has dedicated a part of the sale proceeds from this poster to be donated to the FRIENDS OF VUKOVAR FUND, which is currently accepting donations for the restoration of the Home for Disabled Children in Vukovar, Croatia.