The exhibition's title Roses in the Stradun, might imply a romantic version of the City motifs the audiences are more or less familiar with. However, the exhibition features photographs of the shell-pocked surface of the Stradun, with cavities produced by the burst of shells – somewhat morbidly – called «roses». 

- Several days after the shelling of Dubrovnik, which took place on 6 December 1991, I photographed the devastated people and the devastated and still smouldering City. In the course of time, I have repeatedly placed aside the photographs I had taken in the years that followed, probably being unconsciously afraid that they might come out again. I am neither an anniversary freak nor one to hold a grudge, so that I cannot fully explain my decision to exhibit these photographs. «My own archives have found me», claimed the author at the exhibition opening in Zagreb, which took place at the Lotrščak Gallery in December 2011.

Damil Kalogjera was born in 1962 in Zagreb. Initially engaged in reportage photography, he now prefers applied photography (landscape, portrait and studio photography). A professional photographer since 1979, Damil Kalogjera is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists Association and a long-time associate of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival.