Relics of a Utopia
Nov 03, 2020
3 minutes
Photographer Laurin Schmid had never heard of Spomeniks until he visited a Croatian history museum in Zagreb. ‘I saw a short black and white movie focusing on two or three Spomeniks. There was one Spomenik showing a tower in Kozara, northern Bosnia, which is quite structured, this reminded me of the science fiction film Metropolis [by German expressionist Fritz Lang].’
Inspired, Laurin began to research the hundreds of monuments in the former Socialist Federal Republic of
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