Incredibly haunting but beautiful photography of skateboarding on Yugoslav Soviet monuments

Skateboarders are cool. Soviet architecture is cool. Moody black-and-white photos are cool. Combine all of those super-duper cool things together and what do you get?

You get some damn pretty pictures, that's what - all courtesy of Slovenian photographer Luke Paige.

The series features Slovakian skateboarders Jan Robek and Miha Miklavcic taking on a Yugoslav monument built by Macedonian sculptor Dusan Dzamonja during the WWII. And no, you're probably never going to look this cool. Sorry.

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