Photographer Yang Xiao traveled to ex-Soviet, ex-Yugoslav, and Eastern European countries, to capture forgotten, colossal monuments in a futuristic style.
Xiao combined all the passions of the traveling designer-photographer to create the photo series Eternal Monuments in the Dark. Visiting forty countries, he photographed for nine years, capturing monumental structures designed in the Soviet-Modernist and Brutalist styles, following World War II. He hadn’t originally planned to spend so much time with the project, which in the end completely sucked him in. Seeing his pictures, it’s not hard to understand why…
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