What People’s Homes Look Like Inside Post-Communist Apartment Building

Bogdan Gîrbovan photographs the interior of people’s homes and shows just how creative and varied each one can make their personal space in the series “10/1” (ten 1-room apartments). The Romanian photographer gives us a peek into the lives of different people from friends living together to those living alone residing in the same box-like studio apartments in Bucharest. Constructed during the communist era in 1966, the building was built to reflect conformity where no kind of community or social interactions were allowed and according to Girbovan, “have absolutely no sense of beauty.” The artist himself lives on the 10th floor and his curiosity of how the rest of the residents in the same apartment building led him to create the series to show how people’s individuality still shine even when placed in a homogeneous environment.