The story of this photo. I was walking in a park near by the town I work in. I saw this green and obviously lost shed and decided to take some photos of it. Suddenly, a man appeared (from the nearest restaurant maybe?) and asked me: "What are you doing"? "I am taking a photo of this", I said. "Why?" "Because it’s interesting. I am making art photography. Do you like me to show you my photos?" He looked at me with mistrust and answered: "No, it is not interesting. You must have another reason to shoot here!" I got a bit afraid and hurried to leave this place. I walked to the bus station where I took the bus to my home town.
When I got in my town, the weather was warm and I felt like going home on foot… and, of course, taking some more photos. I planned to take some photos of the railway. The weather was really hot, so I stopped under a tree shadow to change some options of my camera. Then I continued walking. After a couple of minutes a man riding a scooter stopped next to me and asked me: "What were you shooting there?" I said: "I did not shoot anything, I was just adjusting my camera’s options." "Well people told me – go and check what she was shooting here!" I suggested to show him my photos and it seems he believed my words, so he let me go.
I didn’t feel this all funny anymore. I became to get scared. I got even more scared when I saw on the TV the same evening that several policemen has beaten a photo journalist in the yard of the National Court (of law), because he has been trying to take photos of a gangster who had to go there as a witness. The photographer wanted to suit the policemen. But a few days later the courts said – no, the policemen are innocent, the photo journalist is a liar. Maybe he has beaten himself LOL.
You can see that I live in a free country. Some days ago there was another manifestation of freedom – suddenly pornography has been forbidden in Bulgaria. Just like this. Without any public discussion before this. We are a liberal country regarding sex in general, we have erotic magazines, sex shops, erotic videos, TV channels showing porn and everything… But now – if you sell porn, you can go in a jail for one year. If you post porn in Internet, you can go in the jail for… two years! At the same time, no clear definition what porn is in Bulgarian law. All erotic art could be labeled as porn.
Well…
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