Monuments In the dark

We've seen spomeniks before, here and here. They're the extraordinary concrete-brutalist monuments from the days Tito's Yugoslavia, commemorating their glorious achievements – mostly to celebrate victory over the Nazis.

Now photographer Xiao Yang, in her project, Eternal Monuments In The Dark, has dramatised them – and some other East European monuments – by shooting at night, giving them an alien sci-fi aura:

From Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia to Montenegro, Romania, Latvia, Albania, Ukraine and Germany, the structures are each unique and have been captured with blurred stars or eery light against a backdrop of fog, giving the impression that we're seeing alien spacecraft visiting our humble planet. In many, we see a lone figure seemingly approaching the structure – sinister or mysterious, any could be the cover of a bestselling sci-fi novel.

Podgaric Spomenik, Croatia