The Bulgarians by Аnthony Georgieff

An "anthropological roadtrip," in the words of its creator, renowned photographer, writer and journalist Anthony Georgieff, The Bulgarians is a collection of mainly black-and-white photographs produced during the past 10 years, purporting to explain in visual terms the ongoing identity crisis of this little known country in the Balkans. Georgieff offers a critical, yet sympathetic view of ordinary Bulgarians going about their daily business, only to suggest universal, even existential problems and inspire self-reflection. With a foreword by Georgi Lozanov, one of Bulgaria's top intellectuals and critics. Reviewed by writer Kapka Kassabova (Bulgaria/New Zealand/Scotland), Professor Julianna Roth (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany), photo historian Henning Wettendorff (Denmark), artist and publisher Andreas Müller-Pohle (Berlin), Kevin Larimer (editor of Poets & Writers, New York), and Jeremiah Chamberlin (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor). "The Bulgarians will have you lurching between heartbreak and enchantment."