Living and Leaving

This is a story about the small community of Bogolin, one of the few (Islamic) Pomak villages
in the southwest of Bulgaria. I photographed people who are clung to their traditions
because they have been forced to, and I photographed how the West is slowly infiltrating
even those godforsaken places where people still have to produce themselves all they
consume. I photographed the spirit of its culture and the shadow of nostalgia and sense of
loss that hovers over every generation that witnesses significant social changes.