The Garden

They live like nomads on a small unregulated plot in Sofia, which used to be agricultural land in the near past. They live in temporary sheds under the constant fear of eviction. They are filthy, uneducated, and unwanted. They are Roma. This body of work begun under the bigger subject of CONFLICT by the FOTOFABRIKA festival in 2016 and it remained an ongoing project for me since then. It opens an awkward conversation about the marginal life in a Roma neighborhood, where the ideal meets reality, culture meets culture and desire meets the unknown.