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Stories of people

Stories of people are short texts sharing life experiences of people around us. They make you wonder. They make you feel sense of belonging and sympathy. They share life paths and plights of a life. The stories have the power to take you to another time, environment and convey complex characters and arouse your curiosity.
A woman who met with the death.

Close encounter with death

During a discussion about how hospitals are unwelcoming with white walls and dark corners, the women in the photo revealed to me that she’s grateful to doctors. She told me she had good experience. She felt unwell one day. It was just tiredness. She didn’t think much about it and
04/12/2022
The man who wanted to get sick.

Man who wanted to get sick

Man who was never ill when he was young. His classmates got ill a lot. Somehow he envied them. In the end his wish was fulfilled in such an extent that he couldn’t have expected.
31/08/2022
Violin teacher and a musician.

Czech violinist and Leonid Brezhnev

How Leonid Brezhnev sent a waiter to prison in 1982 and what was the reality with freedom of speech during communism. The difference between absolute musical hearing, relative musical hearing and standard musical hearing. Why and how primary school is useful.
30/08/2022
Salesman with cigarette papers.

Cigarettes aren’t what they were before

The man worked for a manufacturer of cigarette papers for 30 years. After that he became independent. He works as an independent businessman in the same industry. He was on a business trip to Bulgaria. Today cigarettes don’t include normal tobacco. They include the tobacco which is like a chicken
27/12/2021
Rovnoprávnost

Gender equality men and women in communism

Gender equality of men and women was higher than today when it came to people having a sub-machine gun in their hands. Civil defence education was fun. Story of a man about what it was like to attend school during communism and a connection between the education and ideology.
23/12/2021
Stallholder from Skopje.

Crooked officials

He has been selling souvenirs at a stall in Skopje for 15 years. He needed a permission from the government of North Macedonia. He got it. However, it was difficult. Governmental officials are intertwined with their acquaintances and friends. Those friends have an influence on decision-making of the governmental officials.
20/12/2021
5 years in Czechoslovakia.

5 years in Czechoslovakia

The man in the photo sells clothes at an open-air market in Ohrid (North Macedonia). Ohrid has an atmosphere of an Adriatic Sea resort. He worked for a company which manufactured concrete constructions. He lived and worked in Czechoslovakia for 5 years in 70s as a part of the employment
05/09/2021
Beloved Tito.

Beloved Tito

He was in the army in 1984 before the Yugoslav Wars. Tito, former president of Yugoslavia, died in 1980. Life was better during the former regime based on what the guy in the photo told me. Real freedom existed in Yugoslavia. He had his own metal band and could travel
25/08/2021
Restaurant service sucks.

Restaurant service sucks

He studied hospitality. He works as a cook for a catering company. Me: “I am not satisfied with the quality of service in restaurants.“ Him: “I don’t pay attention to it and I understand them. It’s a demanding job for not so much money.” During the Corona period they carried
25/08/2021
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