Most of the pictures in this project are taken in Sofia within a period of one year, in 2019 and 2020.

The idea behind my project started from the genre that I usually work, which is reportage photography. Until this moment, in my photographs, my point was to focus on people who were the living story and dynamic of a static city, but now I tried to approach the matter inversely. To capture the dynamics of these objects from the urban space that we are used to see as static. High panel blocks are perhaps the most static urban object in the eyes of people, they don’t have the evolution of glamorous business buildings or the dynamics of a modern-fashioned architecture, but they rise as monuments of a past era without the symbolic elevation of the cathedrals. Just static, heavy and gray objects, old, aversive that we do not want to look at. But is this really true?

         Technically, every single one of those giant panel building gathers in It’s core people as much as a village. They have a rising verticality, which gathers people in their structure, gives security and protection, provides shelter where the city man finds peace for his personal life away from the dynamics of the public. In sunrises and sunsets, in the darkness of night, people turn into the quietude of the urban, while the dynamics are taken up by the high-rise buildings. They take in the colors and contrasts of the falling twilight or the awakening sunrise. They distribute this light in their architectural forms and in the distance they arise, especially, for a few hours, in the morning and evening.

This is the object of my photographic selection – the city that comes to live from the colors and lights from especially those buildings, which we are used to think about that they are gray and lifeless – the panel buildings.