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Eric Sutherland Photo: alicepopkorn ( in and out ) I can see you need a lifeboat a set of strong arms wrapped around you one brave hand reaching up from the abyss

Photo: Galina Neykova The winners of the photo contest “The Smile of the Summer,” sponsored by the multimedia magazine Public Republic, were announced and awarded on 9/29 during an art event in Sofia, Bulgaria.

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” – Ernst Haas

Part III Ivan Golev Editor-in-Chief, GEO magazine (Bulgaria) I believe in… love, honesty and God. Life is… a series of surprises on a known road. I find extraordinary… that we exist – grass, insects, birds, people. The three most important things are… my family, my job and my freedom. Maxim Behar Chairman of the Bulgarian […]

Claudia Bierschenk Photo: L-plate big cheese 9 November 1989 was the day of our weekly school disco. That particular day was supposed to be the last time I’d ever go to the school disco. It was the night I said goodbye to all my friends, because it was very likely I would never see them […]

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows” – Aristotle Onassis On a small island, at a 2000-km distance from the nearest island, some amazing stone statues were hewn into the rocks of an extinct volcanic crater. When some Dutch sailors visited the island on Easter Sunday in 1722, they were stunned […]

Public Republic presents the members of the jury of the international photo contest “The Smile of The Summer”. We are happy they are a part of our virtual art space. Part II Ludmila Filipova Writer I believe in… the genius wisdom of Nature. Life is… a trip which is not as important as where you […]

Stanislava Stanoeva Photo: karavelov I stand and watch the stars sending away their distant past I live amongst physical laws which no one has seen yet I read fortunes on cut down boles when and how will be born the Messiah trees spring up so innocent and then become crosses for the brave the day’s […]

Public Republic presents the members of the jury of the international photo contest “The Smile of The Summer”. We are happy they are a part of our virtual art space. Alan Rosin TV and Commercial Producer I believe in… humanity. Life is… a beautiful gift. I find extraordinary… mankind’s ability to create. The three most […]

An interview with Antonis Liokouras by Ani Vasileva Antonis Liokouras His name is Antonis Liokouras. He was born in Port-Said Egypt 52 years ago from parents of Greek nationality. They moved to Athens in the late ’60s, where he attended a private French-Greek school. He studied Graphic Design and Photography in Athens He have worked […]

Kristin Dimitrova Photo: s.e.re Now I feel easy because I expect nothing. The roughly polished glass of the North Sea is far off, yet through a roundabout way reaching the equator. Africa (blue nomads among men-eating sands) a week ago lent its back to a Leonid shower: stars fell piercing through hot and cold atmospheric […]

Eric Sutherland Photo: kevindooley I make my way a joyous escape to the jagged cliff-crowned doorway to the mountains here water shapes every surface with a wavy swirling motion like fingerprints left by a great ancient ocean each rock face bears these marine tattoos

Simon Perchik Photo: Alejandra Mavrovski Because there’s only one East loneliness seems a natural, you sit the way astronomers focus mirrors and your radio all night picking up moons, planets old songs from the 40’s –your hand never leaves the dial even to brush away the dim light fallen across the table.

JoAnn LoVerde-Dropp Photo: zappowbang I’ll sit here reading until they wake and tie small knots along a string of the nubby quiet kept for quiet’s sake. I’ll sit here reading until they wake breathy syllables loosed in their sway by now words stacked high and teetering but I’ll sit here reading until they wake and […]

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