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Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Bianca Van der Werf

Movement – me
Bianca van der Werf was born in Den Haag, The Netherlands and there she studied Architectural Design at the Royal Academy of Arts. Since 2005, she has been hooked on photography and devotes her time to this form of art. Before that time drawing [...]

Aksinia Mihailova

Photo: NatureFreak07
My left hand
over a piece of paper;
if you erased
my thumb and my little finger
and replaced them with verse,
my hand mutilated and bony
[...]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the photographer Sergio Lopes

I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1954 – a son of Italian and Portuguese immigrants. I had a happy childhood despite the financial difficulties faced by my parents, together my three brothers. Since childhood I’ve been a great observer and photography has been my greatest passion; [...]

David Cazden

Photo: yoppy
Behind us, flashes of car windshields
off the streets, students
awaiting plates of food.
We float conversation
while the sky encircles us
without a cloud.

Vanya Nikolaeva
Related to the article The Lost Queen of Egypt

Dr. Kara Cooney’s professional life is devoted to archaeology and Egypt’s history and art. Her first book, The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period was published in 2007. She is working on a number of [...]

Raven Jordan

Photo: lepiaf.geo
Read chapters 1-3 here
Even now, the pearl-blight raged. The king knew this; why were they telling him yet again?
It was sunny, out beyond the colonnade. Out there, it was hot. The fountain bubbled and spat; hummingbirds browsed the vines. He watched one close in upon a flower, close and linger…then withdraw. His throne [...]

Darren Jackson

Photo: carlsonimkeller
Although it’s been many years since I first escaped into the tormented mythology of the Meidosems, the images still hold me the way the Meidosems’ grip one of their children of the soul, dangled by the ankle “in the wind and the rain” (115)*.
I had moved to the south of France for [...]

Katia Delavequia

Снимка: Jsome1
“Fado is like a sigh” – Celeste Rodrigues, fado singer.
Very few things can describe a culture and the vibrations of a people as the music. It is the music that makes us realize a different universe. Fado is a popular rhythm of Portugal, relatively appreciated in Spain, France, Netherlands, Japan, India and [...]

Zdravka Evtimova

Photo: ktylerconk
Elinor Cunnigham was an exceptionally cold-blooded woman. Her eyes narrowed as she stared at a small, crumpled newspaper clipping. Her fingers trembled with suppressed rage. She found the clipping in her husband’s wallet during one of her regular searches.
It was an advertisement carefully underlined by Henry. There could be no doubt that [...]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with Gerardo Gomez

Who is Gerardo Gomez?
Gerardo Gomez is a young visual artist from El Salvador, Central America, turning 20 this year. A dreamer and a rebel, with an immense passion about his art. We are starting a new century and a new millennium; things are evolving and we are looking for [...]

George Fillingham

Photo: ansik
“Later, the firecat closed his bright eyes
And slept.”
         Wallace Stevens
After Steven’s firecat
Had bristled in the way
Of the clattering bucks
As they swerved
To the left, and to the right,
He slept.
And as he slept, he dreamed.

Translated from Bulgarian by Mariana Velichkova
The civilization of ancient Egypt existed for three thousand years in a flux between periods of stability known as “Kingdoms” and intermediate periods of general instability. According to etymologists the word ’Egypt’ means ‘two straits’ – it relates to the dynasty separation of Upper and Lower Egypt during the time [...]

David Cazden

Photo: luigi morante
Sali reads Turgenev, sits
next to a girl with loose
pants and a looped wallet chain.
They talk in airy tones
beside the diner window
where the sky is dense

Velina Vateva’s interview with Cesar Pimentel

Photo: Tihomir-Caspar
Cesar Pimentel is interested in the enigmatic. The photographs in his exhibit, “Bulgaria My Eyes Wish To See,” may present spring and summer scenes in Bulgaria, a particular place, particular people, are not the subjects of his photography. Rather, he is interested in what hides behind the image. His [...]

Bozhana Apostolova

Photo: Per Ola Wiberg
Get up early. Carry on your shoulders the concern
about the seed yesterday sown.
Everyday there is something unfinished to be done:
a cut conversation, an unfinished poem.
Everyday there is something that has yet
to be born or conceived.
Go along the hard road of water and bread—
there is no other salvation.
Scary is this white sheet [...]

Simon Perchik

Photo: lepiaf.geo
As if from some hourglass this beach
slipped past last night, the wind
returning empty, its sand
laying motionless among the hours, one
more joyous than another, one more caring
one flying between these gulls
and even you are lonely

Vanya Nikolaeva

How long have you been photographing? What is photography to you?
I’ve been photographing for about 15 years. Everything started at Parallax Photo Club, Sofia, Bulgaria. At that point I was in my freshman year at Sofia University. Since then the flame has been burning increasingly. I really grew up as a photographer over the [...]

Interview of Krassimir Avramov by Tatiana Pedersen

Photo: Vassil Karkelanov
The career of Krassimir Avramov, the man-voice, has been well documented. He had been a mime and producer in Bulgaria before fulfilling his American dream. We have read about his many concerts and his life among the stars of Los Angeles. He is now in Bulgaria, preparing [...]

Kenneth Pobo

Photo: j-pocztarski
In 745 Li Po
peppers a poem
about loneliness
with a mountain
and, inevitably,
a moon. Today
in Middletown,
I’m lonely. A mall
a half mile away,
that’s a mountain too.
Some regrets are
mountains. Some
can never be climbed.

Elayne Clift

Photo: zenobia_joy
Ever since my first job as a medical secretary, I have believed it would be useful for med students to be admitted anonymously to a teaching hospital where they could experience first-hand the indignities of a medical work-up. Whether for diagnostic or treatment purposes, I’m sure their empathy for patients would ratchet [...]