Yugo skate these?
These photos are from the “Spomenik: The End of History” photo documentary project by Jan Kempenaers. They are part of a series of photographs of memorials in the former Yugoslavia commissioned in the 60’s and 70’s to commemorate Wolrd War II battles and concentration camps. Two of these monuments look marginally skateable. I tried to find the one on the right (Jasenovac, a network of concentration camps) on Google Maps, but it proved fruitless. If anyone else has better luck, let me know. Now that Yugoslavia is no more, these 25 monuments have all been abandoned and are in various states of disrepair. Truth.fully, theses two are barely interesting from a skating standpoint, but the rest of them are architecturally fantastic. Kempenaers exhibited the work and published a book in 2010.
[Source: Sue Du Jour] – Thanks to Aaron Shims for the tip.
You almost make it sound like Kempenaers is the sculptor/artist but -to be clear- he is the photographer of these monuments.
Good point. I have clarified it.
I think this is the Jasenovac monument @ 45
dang, that’s pretty cool. I just put those coords in the google serch and clicked maps and satellite. I took Google earth off my machine a while back.
I don’t get it, I searched Google maps for Jasenovac before and it brought me somewhere else. I even tried scouring that damned river, way upstream.
Sorry Kilwag, I should have mentioned it didn’t come up in a search for me either and I navigated there from Stara Gradi