→Rumy Vladimirova

These 26 frames represent my personal perspective on one night in the world of Comics and its party crowd — a night announced as the Closing Party in 2005. My intention was to capture the emotions of people who seemed to be saying goodbye to their club, rather than create a conventional documentary or a series of “perfect” photographs. What interested me was the nostalgic emotion between friends who had gathered to dance one last time in their club, sharing a sense of togetherness and solidarity — clubbers and staff alike. The fact that all the photographs were taken on a single roll of black-and-white film is an essential part of the concept. There are exactly 26 frames — neither more nor less. They follow the natural progression of the night and, together, form a small visual narrative. For me, the series also has another layer: it carries a strong sense of the House culture that the club helped establish during the first decade of the 2000s. The analogue film further preserves this atmosphere — the grain, the light, the imperfections and the spontaneity of the moment all become part of the story itself. For this reason, I would like to present the series not simply as a selection of photographs connected by their subject, but as an independent exhibition, in which the 26 frames can be experienced as one complete visual narrative of a single party night in the atmosphere of Comics Club. I believe that, within the context of BUNA, this project could acquire an additional layer of meaning — as a meeting point between photography, cinema, Comics culture, and the visual memory of a generation.