Photos taken in Bulgaria
04-03-2008
 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Pictures of roma living in my mother's village Vetren dol near town of Pazardjik – Bulgaria Author Valentin Hristov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Todorov Den - Horse Easter. Festival marking the traditional holiday of Todorov den, also known as Horse Easter in the two biggest gipsy neighbourhoods of Sofia Fakuteta and Filipovci - 15,16 March 2008. The Orthodox tradition features horse and cart races to honour the role of horses in Bulgaria's history. (2008) Author Nikola Mihov, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 Milka Kozlenarka (Achtopol, 2000) Author Věra Okénková, Brno
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A story to the photo Milka Kozlenarka
It was July, 2000, and I and my husband went on holiday to Bulgarian
Achtopol. Unfortunately, I got solar eczema so we had to spend most of our
time in the shade. One afternoon we were walking in the woods, where we went
to hide me from the sunrays so pestilent for my skin, when suddenly we heard
a terrible stamping, dogs´ barking and shouting. I was quite frightened
because I didn’t like the idea of being attacked by a group of bandits. When
the noise got stronger and stronger, I started thinking which tree I would
be able to climb. None of them seemed suitable. Then, a huge herd of sheep
and goats was running by. It was incredibly numerous. While making a great
noise two women were shepherding the herd. That surprised me a lot as I
thought it had to be really hard work to handle such a mass.
When the initial shock passed away and I decided to take a photo of the
herd, the shepherdess was just running by so I smiled at her and asked if
she didn’t mind. She agreed but gestured at me by hand to wait. She lay down
her linen bag and began to brush and pin her hair. Before she finished
making up, the herd had gone. I was a little disappointed but the
shepherdess understood I wanted to take a picture of her not the herd and I
didn’t want to spoil it for her. After she also did her daughter’s hair and
the photographing could begin. The daughter was a little bit shy but her Mum
was extremely friendly and introduced herself as Milka. I admired the huge
mass of kettle which had just run by; Milka smiled proudly and said she took
care of the whole village’s kettle. That was an honorable responsibility!
When we were saying good-bye, Milka invited us to her place saying that if
we just say Milka Kozlenarka (translated: the goat shepherdess), everyone
will know where she lives.
We weren’t going to go and see her, yet I met her one more time. We went for
a swim in the evening, my husband went to the hotel room and I went to do
some shopping for supper. When I was on my way back from the shop, I came
across tiny Milka. But she was not smiley this time, quite the opposite, she
was tearful and unhappy. I asked what had happened. She said she had lost a
lamb. I felt really sorry for her and wanted to help her somehow, not
knowing how. So I pressed the bag with the shopping into her hand – she
might eat the sorrow away. At least, it always worked well with me. Milka
didn’t want anything; anyway she accepted the bag in the end. I couldn’t
help myself thinking of her and told my husband that I wished to go to see
her and, may be, offer her some money. He agreed so I asked the landlady
about Milka. However, she had no idea who Milka Kozlenarka was. Unluckily, I
didn’t meet Milka anymore but I will never forget her. Whenever I recall
her, I wish her to be fine and never to lose any other head of her herd.
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