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Looking at photos, Volos 1997.

« Yes, we send photos. We send them by mail. Because my grandmother wants to see them. And now we have a little girl [in the family]. Now my uncle who is here had a little girl. She’s nine months old and now she’s very sweet. She is so sweet. We want to see her, to know how she is doing, talking and things like that. Yes, we do that. Every now and then we send photos. […] Not photos from work. Mostly photos from celebrations. We take photos when we all get together in the house or when we go out sometimes. For them to see where we live in Volos, where we’re living. These are the kind of photos we send. They’re not photos taken while we’re working and things like that. No. I haven’t yet send photos from work. No. »

Elli (19, Bulgaria )

« We send them tapes. Say, when my father goes to Bulgaria, I mean when someone from the family leaves, we all get together—relatives and friends—and he records us on the camera […] He records us on the camera. And someone says on camera this and that…to his brother, his mother, his father. And when he gets to Bulgaria, they all get together there and he pulls out his camera for them to watch us. Then he also films our relatives there and brings the tape to us. […] And they send from there too. For example, when a cousin gets married, or somebody we know, and we can’t go to his marriage, whatever happens, somebody will record it with a camera and then bring the tape back to us to watch it. Then we all get together again like this… »

Marko (22, Bulgaria )

Send a photo!

Culture When the kids go out Performing identities Remittances Media worlds Mediatic borders Return Nostalgia Betwixt and between Moneybags Send a photo! Stay on the line! Entertaining Hometown girl, hometown boy Name change Whose side are you on? Traditions from home New traditions