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I'm Good I'm Great I'm Wonderful

by Vesselina Nikolaeva

Photographs: Vesselina Nikolaeva

Text: Vesselina Nikolaeva, Frank Mulder, Rami, Bettina Can Santen, Yana Buhrer Tavanier, Nina Todorova, Aleid Wolfsen

Publisher: selfpublished

unpaged pages

Pictures: colour illustrations throughout

Year: 2012

Price: 15 €

Comments: newspaper format and paper, 40 x 25 cm

The days of the old buildings on Camera Obscura street are counted. In one-year time they’ll be gone to make a place for new and modern houses eventually.
But for now, this is still a post-war neighbourhood, often associated with anonymity and gloominess, where people continue to cope with their environment short before parting with it.
The ones who end up here cope with aging, immigration, illegality. They struggle to find work, to contain their personal and cultural integrity. I try to touch that through photographs of their domestic landscapes.
Such neighbourhoods are in the quiet gray areas of the city; few have seen life as it is here and soon nobody will. I strive for realistic pictures to make a personal diary of the days in this place.

—Vesselina Nikolaeva

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I'm Good I'm Great I'm Wonderful

by Vesselina Nikolaeva

Photographs: Vesselina Nikolaeva

Text: Vesselina Nikolaeva, Frank Mulder, Rami, Bettina Can Santen, Yana Buhrer Tavanier, Nina Todorova, Aleid Wolfsen

Publisher: selfpublished

unpaged pages

Pictures: colour illustrations throughout

Year: 2012

Price: 15 €

Comments: newspaper format and paper, 40 x 25 cm

The days of the old buildings on Camera Obscura street are counted. In one-year time they’ll be gone to make a place for new and modern houses eventually.
But for now, this is still a post-war neighbourhood, often associated with anonymity and gloominess, where people continue to cope with their environment short before parting with it.
The ones who end up here cope with aging, immigration, illegality. They struggle to find work, to contain their personal and cultural integrity. I try to touch that through photographs of their domestic landscapes.
Such neighbourhoods are in the quiet gray areas of the city; few have seen life as it is here and soon nobody will. I strive for realistic pictures to make a personal diary of the days in this place.

—Vesselina Nikolaeva

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