Young & Bulgarian: Ein Fotoessay von Britta Morisse Pimentel - Softcover

German photographer Britta Morisse Pimentel shows the young and vital face of Bulgaria Have you ever wondered how you would describe Bulgarian culture or young Bulgarians? If you think the question too philosophical, see German photographer Britta Morisse Pimentel's recipe. A vagabond in her soul, Britta Morisse Pimentel arrived in Bulgaria in April 2009 at the suggestion of a friend. For the German, who is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography, this wasn't her first plunge into the vibrancy of another country. She had lived in the US and in Brazil for some time and won the São Paulo Critics' Association award for one of her photo essays. Her stay at Bulgaria was supposed to be a two-week exploration of what remains an obscure country, but it ended up being something much bigger the photographic project Young & Bulgarian 2010, in which Britta mixes together 39 portraits of young Bulgarian people with quotes and pictures by Bulgarian authors and artists. The resulting 48 page book is being published in Germany in May 2010 by the ConferencePoint Verlag in Hamburg ISBN 978-3-936406-24-5. At the moment there are four exhibitions planned; two in Bulgaria, in Sofia and Plovdiv, and two in Germany, in Hamburg and Berlin. (VAGABOND, Bulgaria's English Monthly, Issue 43-44, April-May 2010)

39 fotografische Porträts junger Bulgaren und Bulgarinnen werden in einen Kontext von ausgewählten Wort- und Bildzitaten bulgarischer Autoren und Künstler gebracht. So entsteht ein Gesamtbild flüchtiger und nachdenkenswerter Eindrücke und Gedanken von einem der weniger bekannten Länder Europas und der Aufbruchsstimmung seiner jungen Generation.