The Long Walk
9 April 2009 Dima Chakarova
Some people in London and New York know Viktoria Orizarska as a credit analyst. But the people in Asia, Australia and South America who she met during her travel around the world, know her simply as the girl from Bulgaria. For just a year she visits 15 countries and made hundreds of photos, which are now in her exhibition One Year Around the World.
Every one of us has dreamed of traveling around the world. How did you decide to make it?
At first I was only dreaming. 10 years ago I left Bulgaria - went to Oklahoma state with a scholarship, then moved to New York and then to London. Appetite comes with the eating - the more you travel, the more you want to travel more.
Is it expensive?
I do not think so. I calculated that if I had stayed a year in London, I would have spent more money than traveling around the world.
Did you sense fear?
All kinds of it. From the one that if I go I will regret leaving my good job, to the one I might get infected by some disease.
Which of your preliminary ideas of the world was turned into pieces?
All of them - there was no country to look the way I had imagined it. You can watch movies, read books, but you just have to touch and smell some things to feel how is it like to live at that place. And compared with some of these places, Bulgaria is a developed country.
What can we expect to see at the exhibition?
I will show about 50-60 photos - most of them will be moments from the travel, there will be a smaller room with pictures from Vietnam and Nepal where I visited schools built by Room to Read.
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