For Centuries, “Kukeri” Have Helped Locals Frighten Off Winter’s Worst
No 104
“This is why festive folk laughter presents an element of victory not only over supernatural awe, over the sacred, over death; it also means the defeat of power, of earthly kings, of the earthly upper classes, of all that oppresses and restricts.” -Mikhail BakhtinFebruary in Pernik, Bulgaria: a landscape of drab high-rises, rusty kiosques and knee-deep gray snow....
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- Photographer - Aron Klein
- Text - Elena Sergova
