(ANSA) - TRIESTE - The project 'Minimal Belgrade' documents some of the most prominent pieces of Belgrade's mid-twentieth century architecture. Photographer Mirko Nahmijas depicts surreal geometric compositions - 'ugly' and majestic at the same time - representative of brutalism and social realism which reigned in Tito's Yugoslavia.

An almost forgotten face of the Serbian capital emerges through Nahmijas' lens - a different view on an era which still provokes mixed feelings of repudiation and nostalgia among local inhabitants.

"Often called Socialist Modernism, Soc-realism, Brutalism, Architecture of forced standard etc., the main characteristic of all these astonishing edifices is that they will always look not just futuristic, but as though they were taken from the future and brought to us", the photographer told ANSA New Europe about his project, which is available in more detail on the website MinimalBelgrade.com. (ANSA).