Insightful Photos Reveal How Differently People Live in Identical Apartments - My Modern Met
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Romanian photographer Bogdan Gîrbovan seeks inspiration that literally hits close to home. He currently lives on the 10th floor of a Bucharest apartment building, which was built in 1966 during communist times. To create widespread equality, many of these plain lodgings were constructed with identical apartments to prevent any individualistic forms of expression. In an e-mail, Gîrbovan describes them to us as “mere boxes” that don’t allow for social, cultural, or communicational happenings. Residents can only fulfill their basic needs in these single-room spaces that, according to the artist, “have absolutely no sense of beauty.”
After looking around at his own apartment, the photographer wondered how those living below him inhabited their nine identical places. He then decided to conduct a sociological survey on these dwellings called 10/1—named after the ten, one-room apartments—by taking a photograph of each room from the same exact angle. In doing so, Gîrbovan wanted to illustrate the blend of different social classes that are living under the same roof. He wanted to explore the differences that have prevailed in a homogenous setting. The residents are included in the photographs to illustrate this, along with the unique character of each individual apartment. While this is only one building, Gîrbovan explains that it represents over 70% of the housing in the capital city.
Scroll down to take a peek into these apartments, in descending order, and the residents who have made the identical rooms their personal homes.
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