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By Evelina Lambreva Jecker Photo: pensiero All her girlfriends had a pet. All were benevolently spending fortunes on them. Mrs. Friedrich was the doting parent of a ten-year old Angora cat. The cat had regular appointments with a hairdresser and a cat manicurist, who would cut her claws with extreme care, while a special dentist, […]

Interview with Art McLeod by Vanya Nikolaeva Art McLeod grew up on the outskirts of a small town in Northern Ontario, Canada. He spent most of his childhood years with his parents (big nature and photography lovers) when they went camping and canoeing through the lakes and rivers in the pristine Canadian wilderness. No season […]

An interview with the photographer Pavel Pronin by Natalia Nikolaeva “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography” – Federico Fellini Fresh, bathed in light and emotional are the photographs by Pavel Pronin. Before anything else, the pictures, captured by a 21 year old photographer, enchant you with his deep love towards nature […]

Ellie Ivanova Ponti Petja Heinrich is a journalist, linguist and writer. Her first book of poetry in Bulgarian is to be presented in Sofia on December 6, 2008. She is an editor for the German-language edition of Public Republic.

Petja Heinrich Photo: DarkCtyle’s The fresh apple core contains enough live molecules to assemble a human being with all his charms and flaws pink skin and rot under the nail soft flesh bone of the seed hair of the stem

Vladimir Levchev Photo: ssdctw This is a cardboard box. It is labeled 5: 47 p.m. Inside, there is a sunset above a forest: an Easter egg in green paper. There is also wind.

Katherine Van Hook Gulley Photo: kevinkrejci It was at the height of the Renaissance period, when the Kings of the earth fought to control all the borders around them. In a castle high above the sea, among the rolling black hills lived a man. He was alone, as he had chosen to be most of […]

Petja Heinrich Photo: theogeo a real waste of time are the attempts to smooth the edges of the wrinkled shirts chewed up in the angry washing machine there hadn’t been soul foam and water in the merciless spin cycle God is a washerwoman Translated from Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Interview with Alan Rosin by Vanya Nikolaeva Alan Rosin is a commercial producer and a licensed boxing official. Over the years he has worked with countless celebrities, sports figures, and heads of state. He has worked on feature films such as “Blade Runner”, worked for CBS News with Walter Cronkite, videotaped Golda Meir, produced McDonald’s […]