Telik is a common name for TV that emerged as first TVs became available in Soviet Union. The acquisition of a TV set was a milestone for soviet families. Black and white TVs were bought on
credit and were subjects of familiar pride. A TV set was more than a bare commodity – a status symbol, an item of deficit, a portal to the world beyond, a transmitter of state propaganda. Today people manifest their social status in images of global travel or branded items. Once a TV did that
trick.

Photographs in this project were gathered in a treasure hunt over numerous flea markets, secondhand shops and online auctions. They reveal a pattern in amateur photography, outlining how we all take same pictures without being taught to do so.