Bulgaria 1985-1995

Bulgaria 1985-1995: Everything, but not fatigue 

by Blood Becomes Water

What happens when the enemy disappears? This bilingual photobook is an archive of personal memories and “scattered evidence” of the young counterculture that emerged in Bulgaria in the late 1970s and 1980s. The greatest paradox occurred after 1989: a movement that had thrived on marginality was temporarily brought into the mainstream to serve as a symbol of the society it had resisted. A document of a decade of change in which rebellion against the monolithic state turns into a rejection of the new reality as well.

Dimensions: 22 × 14 cm
Pages: 62 pages
Cover: Flexible; Grey cardboard 300g/m²
Body: Munken Print White 300 g/m²
Binding: Screws (15 mm)
Printing technique: High-quality digital print
Language: English / Bulgarian
Edition: 50 copies

ISBN 978-619-92838-2-0

Editorial and graphic design: Raya Boteva
Communication with sources: Rosie Eisor
Proofreading: Svetoslav Todorov, Sarah Schug
Photography: Alexo Petrov, Butch from Haskovo, Dimitar Kolchakov, Emil Bogoev, Georgi Kazakov, Ognyan Angelov and Tsvetan Polomski. Personal photographic archives provided by Imaginary Archive by Tihomir Stoyanov, Krumcho Valcho and Zhoro Martinov.