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Kristin Dimitrova Photo: tonythemisfit I Every night I look for a door to your dream. I will open it and eavesdrop. Although I have opened many doors behind each one I saw a mirror. II Do you remember how once we posed naked and smiling before the mirror? You and he swapped wives and each […]

She could feel the need for fame in her fingertips
as if each print were a map of divine destiny

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” – Frank Herbert At 230 km, Cave Lechuguilla is one of the five longest caves in the world. It is named after a plant (Agave lechuguilla) found in the immediate proximity of the entrance. Lechuguilla is located in Carlsbad Caverns National Park […]

Ivanka Mogilska Photo: Eryn_Vorn Kara I don’t want to do anything that might distance me from her. I don’t want us to get any closer… at least, not in the usual way: The first few meetings over coffee. Then our life stories. Mine. Hers. In telling them, we already have our history. We start to […]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the French photographer Philippe Sainte-Laudy When the images speak louder than words… What is the one thing a camera could never capture? I believe that everything can be captured. It depends mainly on the photographer. We are all more comfortable with certain topics. For example, I do not know how to […]

Elayne Clift Photo: flavinsky Some years ago I read a book about Gypsies. It was called Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca and it changed forever the way I think about the Roma people. It’s amazing how knowing something about a too-easily-stereotyped group can alter your view of its members. Such was the case when […]

Kristin Dimitrova Photo: lepiaf.qeo Stefcho from Slatina District believes in Batman. He also believes in Baba Yaga, Santa Claus, the fairies, the Martians, Dracula, the seven dwarfs and Snow White.

Photo: vorty Once upon a time there was a fabulously beautiful bird. She lived in the dreams of the artists, poets and hunters. The artists tried to draw her their whole lives, but never succeeded in capturing her image. And the people said to them: -If you can’t draw her it means there is no […]

Ekaterina Vitkova Photo: Robert Swier Sequel Cast: Ice-cream Vendor First Receptionist Second Receptionist Tramp Citizen ACT III The setting is on the outer side of the receptionist window, which is crosswise with two laths. In front of it can be seen the bench. A citizen carrying a sheet of paper in his hand is walking […]