ON THE TRACKS OF THE BRIGHT FUTURE
2005
7 photographs, text
Team: field research - Dimitar Bozhilov, styling – Sandra Klincheva, make-up artist – Tsvety Hristova
The project is part of the Visual Seminar realized in partnership with relations – a project initiated by the Federal Cultural Foundation, Germany
The series is based on interviews with some 70 upper-grade students in three high schools in Sofia.
The theme of the talks we had with them - “what do you want to be”, “how do you envisage yourself after 20-30 years” – gave us the opportunity to mark the basic directions in the dreams of young people, who are now starting their self-dependent life.
The photographs in the series visualize seven of these dreams.
ASSEN, 17: My wife... she won’t be very pretty, probably – it will be a marriage of convenience.
BORYANA, 18: When I am 80 I imagine myself as a tall old lady, with absolutely all her brains. A forest, an old house, simple furniture, white sheets surrounding me... the simplest wooden things.
CAMELIA, 17: At the age of five and a half I already knew I wanted to be a lawyer. Now I will study criminal law. I love my job although I haven’t started practicing it yet.
GEORGI, 17: I want to be a comedian –so that when people watch me on the stage they would forget reality for a couple of hours. I like the feeling before going out on stage – a peculiar feeling, as though butterflies are flitting in your stomach...
IVAN, 21: I want to study acting at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. Although it is hard to make a living on it, I think I was born a comedian - though I think I could play tragedy as well. I love to come into notice. I could also become a good director – an actor-director.
LYUBOMIRA, 17: I would like to deal with PR or advertising – I’d love to have plenty of people around. I dream of opening a cafe, to play my music there and have my friends visiting me. It’s all about job, the cafe is a dream...
SLAVI, 18: In 20 years I see myself behind an enormous desk, in a very stylish suit and looking authoritatively through my glasses. I will have only a few employees, but very good ones. There will be a Jacuzzi for six people in the house, for my friends. Outside there will be a large yard, a swimming pool, 8x20 m., and stables with five horses. I will even get a little doe and two dogs.