Photo Arena 2024
Lauren Schmid
Relics of a Utopia
Location
Kirchgemeindehaus
Time
Hourly xx.12 xx.32 xx.52
Relics of a Utopia
With the Spomeniks (German: monuments), Tito's architects created a bizarre utopia made of concrete and steel: brutalist monuments were erected in honor of the partisans in places of tragic World War history - a scene of the future was built on the bloody past. However, since the Yugoslavian wars of the 90s, many of these memorial sites have been forgotten, as they are symbols of the controversial Tito regime.
Lauren Schmid
Laurin Schmid has been working as a photojournalist for publishers, agencies, NGOs, ministries and companies for 15 years. He was born in Germany in 1983, lives in Berlin and his focus is on reportage and documentary photography.
In addition to his daily work as a press and PR photographer, Laurin deals with political, societal and social issues and works on personal projects for which he has traveled to the Mediterranean, North Korea, Iraq and the countries of the former Yugoslavia travelled. His photos are shown worldwide in newspapers and magazines, books and illustrated books as well as in exhibitions. He was nominated for the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards for his photo series "Relics of a Utopia".
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