Babelyulin is the second chapter of a travel journal that is photographic project. The title is Flâneur in the 21st century and in this work the city is investigated: the city as a privileged place where human lives and history weave complex relationships creating the controversial ideas of culture and its reflected aberrations, and the city as a reminiscent concept of humankind seeking redemption of its finitude through urbanitation and technological civilization. In this context, nature is bounded, controlled, decorative and yet it is able to establish itself as a need and even more as a mandatory necessity in recent years.
The journey begins playing on the constant tension between the secular powers and temporal powers. In the first chapter. Roma caput mundi, the author investigates the monumentality of Rome. It is confronted with the monumentality of Lyulin, residential suburb of Sofia, built in the 70s during the communist regime. The author describes the look of Walter Benjamin’s flâneur, the modern viewer who embodies the alienation of the city in single shots those are actually multi exposures from a minimum of three to a maximum of ten photos in a single frame, without photo montage in post processing, to decompose the mood of the city and reassemble it in the art as a tool of critical consciousness.
