Parking lot hydra

Estelle Hanania's documents a Bulgarian winter masquerade, in which men wear elaborate feathered masks and long yak fur costumes. Estelle is bringing us an ancient eastern European festival in the setting of a modern parking lot. Traditional images of costumes that are both mysterious and bizarre yet firmly rooted in a carnival atmosphere of the present. The colour images in this book showing the sometimes bored and always outrageous costumed participants are printed on wonderfully soft newsprint. The pages at the center of the book which depict more of the crowds and the musicians of the festivals are printed black & white on green newsprint. At the beginning of the book there is an interview with Estelle Hanania and Decathlon Books explaining some of the background of the project and the history of the festival.