GRAVESTONE PORTRAIT

Bulgaria EA/BG/0005
https://europearchive.eu/country-index/bulgaria/

This photograph confronts us with a sad reality: Even though our deaths will last forever, our graves won’t. In total, over 109 billion people have lived and died before us, so the struggle for graveyard real estate defies death. Thus, it has become common to recycle graves as well as gravestones. Out of respect to the dead, all identifying information needs to be removed first, including inscriptions and images, like this portrait.

GRAVESTONE PORTRAIT

Bulgaria EA/BG/0005
https://europearchive.eu/country-index/bulgaria/

This photograph confronts us with a sad reality: Even though our deaths will last forever, our graves won’t. In total, over 109 billion people have lived and died before us, so the struggle for graveyard real estate defies death. Thus, it has become common to recycle graves as well as gravestones. Out of respect to the dead, all identifying information needs to be removed first, including inscriptions and images, like this portrait.