A selection of photos from a trip to Bulgaria and Romania, where I went with my friend in the summer of 2020. The whole trip began with our arrival in Varna. In Varna there is, among other things, one of the buildings of Socialist Brutalism. Then through Burgas, Stara Zagora, to the village of Shipka, directly below the mountain Buzludzha where I went to photograph the famous building. We even slept overnight near the building. And on the way back we were taken by a Bulgarian architect (the building is slowly being cleaned up and reconstructed) who drove us from the monument and told us about the construction of that interesting building. The problem is said to be with Bulgarian citizens to accept the building as a cultural monument, because many residents take the monument as a reminder of the past regime and do not want to know that it is one of the most amazing architectural structures of the last century. The journey from Buzludzha continued through Ruse to Bucharest from where we flew back to Prague. We traveled across the surface by hitchhiking all the way (it was about 650km). My friend lost her ID card in front of the Bulgarian-Romanian border so there were many interesting moments and twists and turns at the border crossing.
Camera, 35mm film:
Pentax MG, Kodak ColorPlus 200 and Ilford PAN 400
