2021

“On the one hand we overrate other people, on the other we underrate them; and we constantly overrate and underrate ourselves; when we ought to overrate ourselves, we underrate ourselves, and in the same way we underrate ourselves when we ought to overrate ourselves.”

Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

Perhaps, not all points lying on the same parallel have the same latitude. Between 1970 and 1990 one ordinary family from Sofia takes on dozens of organized tourism trips abroad. This is evident from their extremely well-organized archive of photographs, travelogues and documents. What makes their trips extraordinary is that on top of the most common destinations at the time, they also visited many exotic corners in the world, far beyond the reach of the Warsaw Pact.

digital print, wooden tables, travel belt, variable size

Photos: Radostin Sedevchev and Dimitar Solakov