Sofia has a long history and throughout the past century, it has undergone many social, political and geographical changes. Whole districts appeared while other were demolished but some buildings somehow managed to stand the test of time. They exist today, squeezed in between modern shops and restaurants and they tell a different story – of a budding country that somehow managed to get out of the pit of poverty and slavery to be plunged into another pit of total control only sixty years later, within the lifespan of a generation.

 

That town is long-gone but I will try to trace and connect the bits and pieces of that lost world in my project to see if old Sofia still exists. To do that, I intend to work with local archive websites (and if necessary delve into the National Archives) to get access to imagery that pre-dates WWII since after 1945 the geography and architecture of Sofia was overtaken by Socialist Realism and Stalinist architecture.