Flea Market Stories

Going to the flea market with a big camera is a mission impossible in Bulgaria.

Maybe in other places too, but here it is especially impossible.

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Hi guys, coming across this community, I remembered that I have pictures of market.

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Of course, pictures from the previous, "normal" times, when there were still markets, there were sellers and customers.

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But pictures there could hardly be taken.

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Why?

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When we, a group of photographers, went to the flea market in Dimitrovgrad - not a very large city in southern Bulgaria, solely for photographic purposes, most of the sellers there greeted us with hostility.

Because they were afraid that someone had sent the tax authorities to check them. What we learned from them is that they are afraid even of each other - the sellers from the neighboring stands. Most of them don't pay their taxes, and when someone wants to do bad things to a nearby seller, they just report him to the taxman.

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So, it was a challenge to take pictures at this market - both of the sellers and the goods.

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The two Roma guys above even asked for a picture of them after they greeted us hostilely. Then they decided that we were "from the TV" and we were reporting on the market. That's why they started to share their problems with us in the Roma neighborhood where they live.

I couldn't convince them that I didn't work for a TV channel, so I was forced to listen to their complaints and take a picture of them. Which was good, because then I came across a woman who sent me off her booth with threats.

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This was the other only seller who insisted on being photographed.

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He sells things like these - old metal farm tools:

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Dealing with such things, you have to be a special person, don't you think?

I mean, dealing with buying and selling these old and used things, this junk.

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In my opinion, every thing used by a person begins to carry his energy.

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And when you buy something used by someone else,

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there is a collision and interference of two energies in each other.

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That's why I personally avoid buying second-hand things.

And here is the rest of the photos I managed to take that day on the large area of ​​the Sunday flea market in Dimitrovgrad:

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That's my contribution to the Market Friday Community.

I hope you've enjoyed it!

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Pictures were taken with Canon EOS 700D

Copyright: @soulsdetour

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