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An interview with the photographer Valentin Dimitrov by Yana Radilova
Translation by Asya Draganova

You often mention that your passion for photography is inherited from your grandfather – the famous photographer and interior designer Valentin Stoitsov. When did you realize that you love taking photographs and this was your vocation?
This was dictated by my [...]

Maya Kolarova’s interview with the photographer Tsvetomir Stanivoev
Translation: Zlatina Dimitrova
Tsvetomir Stanivoev: The good end result justifies the time you’ve spent searching success.

Photo: Archive
Tell me about the first time you discovered art?
My mother paints when she has time and inspiration. When I was six or seven years old she painted a bunch of flowers on a [...]

Zlatina Dimitrova’s interview with the photographer Fabio Ricco
Fabio for Fabio

I was born in Genoa, Liguria (Italy) in 1981 and even if I feel I belong to my beautiful sea land I’ve always been attracted to foreign countries. I have visited a large portion of Europe. Last summer I flew for the first time out of [...]

An interview with the photographer Doris Peter by Dessislava Berndt
Translation to English: Asya Draganova

Doris Peter was born in 1967. At the age of 18 she starts a four-year photography course in Zurich which she finishes successfully in 1990. The world is vast, and Doris Peter decides to follow its call. What follows are a [...]

Interview with Lindsey Olivares by Yana Radilova
Lindsey Olivares: “It takes an artistic eye to see the subtlety in life”

Lindsey Olivares
Do you remember how and when you got interested in art?
I’ve been interested in art since I could hold a pencil. As a little girl I drew constantly and always loved creating. I come from a [...]

An interview by Mira Dimova with the photographer Ana Shefchek

Ana Shefchek is a 16-year-old student from Croatia. She lives with her big family and two pets in Oroslavje, a small town near the capital Zagreb. After finishing school she hopes to study acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts.
She’s always had a camera [...]

An interview with painter Eva-Maria Schmitt by Dessislava Berndt

Translation: Dessislava Berndt

Photo: Marc Jahnen
Eva-Maria Schmitt – “Whoever loves to paint, will paint everywhere”
Eva, how did painting become a major part of your life?
I’m painting since I can think.

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Who or what has/had influence on your work?
Actually everything which belongs to the public art discourse and has influence [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with photographer Nestor Mocarski

How did you “discover” photography for yourself?
When I came here to Scotland I was overwhelmed by the landscapes and so many historical places. I have the ability to memorize more places and faces than names, therefore I thought taking photos would help me to remember everything that I have [...]

Maria Aladzhova’s interview with the photographer Jessica Flavin

You are such a young artist. Have you always been interested in photography or did it come on the spur of the moment?
I became interested in photography when I was about twelve or thirteen. From a young age I’d been bought up in a creative environment, the American [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Paul Hessell

What did spark your interest in Egypt and ancient history?
I have been interested in history since my grade school days; it was my favorite subject in school. At times the class ended up being a dialogue between the teacher and myself. I became intensely interested in ancient Egyptian [...]

An interview with artist Sophie Holstein by Maya Kolarova

Photo: Personal archive

Sophie Holstein – biography notes and artist statement
I was born in 1983 in North of Germany. After I graduated from high school in 2003, I moved to Madrid for half a year to learn Spanish. I was curious to discover new places. Afterwards i [...]

An interview with artist Tiphaine de Bodman by Maya Kolarova

Photo: Personal archive

Tiphaine has been trained in illustration and graphics, with an ongoing passion for drawing, and obtained an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins in 2007.
Tiphaine’s approach to drawing is unique in its meticulousness and compulsiveness.
The laborious hours spent on sketching, as [...]

Maria Aladzhova’s interview with Huang Xiang and William Rock

In this issue of Artist of the week Public Republic presents you Huang Xiang and William Rock – two incredible artists and creators of The Century Mountain Project. The Century Mountain Project is an East/West collaboration of art that creates a “visual dialogue across humanity.”
Huang Xiang [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Andrea Laybauer

How and when did you realize that photography would be your vocation?
When I was 17, I was taking pictures of my friends in a very precarious way, using a white sheet as a background and a compact camera without resources.

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Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the sculptor Mariska Zevenbergen

When and how did you realize that art was going to be your vocation?
There are two clear moments in my youth that I realized art is my vocation: at the age of four; an artist came into our class to make large paintings with us my heart became [...]

An interview with Desislava Slavova by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Foto: Dessislava Slavova
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
I like the moments when a person materializes a reality out of their dreams. I admire people who can put love, time, patience and faith into their dreams and thus create an alternate world. [...]

Yana Radilova’s interview with the photographer Art McLeod

My name is Art McLeod. I have been a nature photographer for many years. I grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada. My parents are wildlife photographers and have been ever since I was a child. We spent a lot of time in the wilderness and that had a [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Francisco Valera

Why did you choose photography as your hobby?
Well, first because it is a cheap hobby due to Internet and digital techniques, and second because I can translate my ideas in the different ways of photo composition.

Space collector

No choice – save our world

An interview with painter Jill Mulleady by Maya Kolarova
Jill Mulleady – “a whirlpool of complex emotions”

Photo: Personal archive

Jill Mulleady (born 1980 in Uruguay) is a painter based in London. She studied theatre at Jacques Lecoq School (2002-03), Paris and MA Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London (2007–09).
Jill Mulleady’s paintings combine figuration and [...]

An interview by Mira Dimova with the sculptor Anatoli Monov
Translation: Maya Kolarova

 
How long have you been making these small sculptures?
After I graduated from the academy in1996, Professor George Chapkunov was my tutor. It was very hard in the studio. In the beginning there were no conditions on me, and I attended whenever I could. I [...]