“spomenik” by jan kempenaers: yugoslavia’s forgotten monuments

These imposing, space age, Halo-esque structures are monuments of former Yugoslavia’s Socialist Republic. For his project “Spomenik: The End of History,” Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers spent three years traveling around the Balkans to capture the forgotten structures. During the 60s and 70s, the Yugoslavian government commissioned hundreds of monuments (“Spomeniks”), built at sites of WWII battles, concentration camps, and cemeteries.
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Tags | architecture, History, jan kempenaers, monument, photography, sculpture, soviet, spomenik, ussr, yugoslavia