“Have You Travelled Before 2001? Or Before 1989?” is a collection of 7 personal stories of Bulgarians who travelled, or attempted to, before the EU lifted its visa requirements and before the Iron Curtain fell, respectively.
My canvas was an old communist-era passport, and I used its pages as a diary of the process of exiting the country, along with the mock visas I printed.
What inspired me was the borderless travel I’ve experienced in Europe, as Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, and the Schengen area in 2025. The people who volunteered to share their stories have thus witnessed borders close and open - all within only one lifetime.
32 pages / 9,3x12,7cm
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