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Interview with the visual artist Julie Kaye by Aneliya Angelcheva

Julie Kaye was born in Leeds, United Kingdom. She received her BA at Leeds college of Art. Since her emergence in 2008 Julie Kaye has blended the concerns and methods of Pop and Conceptual art. Evolving new techniques of expressive popular culture to create her own [...]

Interview with the young photographer Abby Hollandsworth by Elisaveta Baltova
Abby Hollandsworth is a 16 year old photographer, born and raised on the East Coast of the United States. At the age of 12 she bought her first camera, and her passion for photography grew from there. Over time she came up with more and more [...]

Interview with Leila Ataya by Galya Mladenova

Leila Ataya was born in Russia, Moscow in 1979. From a very young age her life was strongly influenced by art. In 1995 she was accepted into Arts College in Russia, Moscow and continued her studies in watercolour and drawing.
In 1996 she moved with her family to New Zealand [...]

Interview with Cliff Snell III by Galya Mladenova

Cliff Snell III is the American “fairytale surrealist” artist. His “fairytale” swirling nature paintings are very distinctive, and his collectors prize his dreamy, but precise use of color. Naturalists enjoy his ability to present an accurate, if beautiful specimen of a plant, and those who seek beauty just [...]

Interview with Sue Nichol by Galya Mladenova

Sue Nichol is a British artist who paints places with which she has strong associations and knows very well. She’s attracted to the ‘edges of the land’ – fabulous and varied coastlines or the rocky edges found throughout the British landscape. She paints using oils, acrylics and ink [...]

Interview with Nick Gentry by Galya Mladenova

Nick Gentry is a London artist. For his pieces he re-uses obsolete media formats of the past, like floppy disks and VHS tapes. He has participated in several exhibitions with other artists and a solo show called “Auto emotion”.
Nick’s art raises questions like “Can a human still be considered [...]

Kosara Belnikolova’s interview with the photographer Susan Sandérus
Susan Sandérus: “Live, love and let live”

Susan Sandérus lives in The Netherlands.
Photography is her passion and it’s her way of showing others her vision of life, people, landscapes and architecture. Her photos are seldomly just SOOC because is not a “news journalist”. Her photos reflect her own truth, [...]

Interview by Asya Draganova with Barbora Brezáková
I am happy to bring you an interview with the young artist from Slovakia, Barbora Brezáková. She is a student at Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK. This is how we met and how I first got familiar with her art… Choosing art for your profession is a big risk, [...]

Interview with Antera by Galya Mladenova

Antera is a young artist who is deeply interested in painting, heroic fantasy and video games. She’s attracted to online games like World of Warcraft, which are filled with a rich mythology. She used to paint abstract art, but thanks to WoW, she switched to figurative painting back in [...]

Adriana Dimitrova’s interview with photographer Dare Darlington

Self Portrait – Bang-a-licious
Asking a photographer questions isn’t very easy. So, at the beginning, how would you like to introduce your works?
Gosh, that’s tough, um.. I think I’d say something like: My greatest wish for my art is emotion. I want something to be felt and sensed, and [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with photographer Juan Mendez
Translation from Spanish into Bulgarian: Violeta Boncheva
Translation from Bulgarian into English: Ivaylo Moutaftchiev

Juan Mendez
What attracted you to photography in the first place?
Photography, as a form of expression, gave me the ability to convey feelings, to share them with others. It attracted me since childhood; I was enthusiastic about it [...]

An interview with the French photographer Jean-Marc Caracci by Denka Koleva
Jean-Marc Caracci about HomoUrbanusEuropeanus
Jean-Marc Caracci is a French photographer with Sicilian origins.
Although Born in Tunis, he grew up in Montpellier, Southern France.
He worked in a car company till 2006, but then decided to be a fulltime photographer.
In June 2007, he [...]

An interview with Paulo Capelas by Kosara Belnikolova
Paulo Capelas: “God wants, men dream, the master piece arises”

Do you remember how and when you got interested in art?
Since my childhood I’ve shown aptitude with painting, drawing, modeling. I think it’s an innate characteristic. Later, as an adult, I decided that I should try to make [...]

An interview with the American artist Kent Lovelace by Asya Draganova
First of all, thank you for accepting our interview invitation, Kent. As a form of ice breaking I would like to ask you to introduce yourself to ourselves in a non-traditional way: it could be a song, a phrase, a colour… anything you like, [...]

An interview with the graphic designer Peter Dahmen by Sandra Schmidt
Translation from German to Bulgarian: Elisaveta Baltova
From Bulgarian to English: Asya Draganova
Peter Dahmen brings paper to life…

Where did the idea to create pop-up books come from?
When I was a child the books with pop-up illustrations impressed me a lot. I didn’t have [...]

A Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the artist Mona Youssef
I am happy to present you Mona Youssef – an inspiring person and a wonderful artist, whose art lifts the spirit like a feather in spring.
Mona Youssef is a jury member of the international contest for visual arts “Light as Inspiration” (15 March 2010-15 April 2010), [...]

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 [...]