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Photos of Abandoned and Mysterious Yugoslavian Monuments

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by Andi Vollmer

Jan Kempenaers is an Antwerp based photographer and is attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the University College Ghent in Belgium where he is working on a PhD in the visual arts about the picturesque landscape.

Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans in order to photograph a series of these mysterious objects for his book Spomenik. These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place, or where concentration camps stood. After the Republic dissolved in early 1990s, they we

re completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings were forever lost.

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Intimate Photographs of a marijuana grower in California

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by Andi Vollmer

Maureen Drennan is a photographer born and based in New York City. Of her series ‘Meet me in the Green Glen’ she writes:

‘This is an intimate look at a marijuana grower in California. We met a yea

r ago and through this project have become close. Although marijuana is legal to grow and use in California within strict guidelines, there are situations in which it is still illegal. It is not culturally acceptable to grow or sell despite the fact that many people in the area grow pot and it is a large part of the local economy. Every year this grower, Ben, hires young men to help with the harvest season. They work for about one month and then he is alone again. The story I am communicating is not simply about pot growing, it is also about the experience of a socially isolated person and our relationship. Ben is obsessed, a little dark, and exists in an out of the way place.

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