Top of the blocks: the world's strangest war memorials - in pictures
Dotted around the former Yugoslavia are some of the world's most remote second world war memorials, placed there by Tito to commemorate battle sites. From 2006 to 2009, photographer Jan Kempenaers scoured the countryside to find them all – on show now at London's Breese Little gallery
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1945, 2010. The monuments were commissioned by Tito to commemorate second world war battle sites
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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Spomenik #10, Sanski Most, 2007. Spomenik means 'monument' in Serbo-Croatian
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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Spomenik #1, Podgaric, Croatia, 2006. Designed by Dušan Džamonja, the sculpture's eagle-like wings call to mind the symbolism of Picasso
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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Spomenik #18, Kadinijaca, 2009
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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Spomenik #15, Makljen, 2007
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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Spomenik #11, Nis, 2007
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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Spomenik #22, Ostra, 2009
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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Spomenik #9, Jasenovac, 2007
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
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The Bunker #1, 2010
Photograph: Jan Kempenaers
