Public Republic

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with Celia Baron Because my heart has been beating only for the music I signed up for training in music literature trade in Köln. Meanwhile I have been working for a year in Musikhauses Arthur Knopp in Saarbrucken. At that time I realized that I was going to be a musician. In […]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Paul Bruins When and how did you decide to make photography a part of your life? Although I have been interested in photography since early childhood, unfortunately the cost of developing and printing my film-based photographs was prohibitively expensive. Photography became a part of my life soon after I […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Natalia Nikolaeva’s interview with the photographer Andrea Kamal My name is Andrea Kamal. I was born on February 10, 1965 in Mülheim an der Ruhr which is located in North Rhine – Westphalia in Germany. My father was an Egyptian and my mother is a German. After finishing my school education in 1984 I went […]

Translated from Bulgarian by Ellie Ivanova Ponti Antonia Marinova is the second-place winner of Modern Times, Public Republic photography contest. She believes that art and culture is what we leave behind. Antonia has participated in dozens of photography contests as well as solo exhibits. Her photos have been published in Tema newspaper (Bulgaria), Ecology and […]

An invitation for sharing fantasy Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the photographer Ivaylo Hristov Photography enchanted Ivaylo Hristov a year ago. For him, photography is freedom and energy; it fascinates and challenges him. In my photos I have always tried to reach perfection; by that I mean expressing a simple and pure shape, without any needless […]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with Elitsa Todorova Translated from Bulgarian by Velina Vateva Earth and sky meet, and water embraces fire – this is the music of Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov, music that fascinates your senses. You feel as if you are in some other dimension, and the experience is gorgeous! Elitsa, what is the […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Melissa Michaels is the creator and designer of InPeLoTo fashion brand, which has the idea of infinite love behind it. She is an optimistic talented person with colorful interests. She sees the world like an open scene for possibilities and positive changes. Melissa graduated from the State University of San Diego. Besides fashion, […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Paul Biddle is an English Fine Art Photographer, whose work is beyond the limits of imagination. It opens the gates of an extraordinary world where everything you see could hardly be forgotten. “My inspiration and influences range from Renaissance art to Dadaism and Surrealism, from Picasso to the flotsam and jetsam that I […]

Vanya Nikolaeva When images speak louder than words…   Svetlan Stefanov is the winner of the “Modern times” photo contest, which took place in August 2008 in Sofia (Bulgaria). Svetlan works as a web designer and freelance photographer.   “In the process of creating my artworks, my aim is to follow the thin borderline between […]

Vanya Nikolaeva We are surrounded by the elements every single day of our lives. But when do they start being something more than just gifts of nature? When and how do they commence being art? Liliya Pobornikova is one of the people (literally) holding  the answers. She is one of those artists who is able […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Johanna Fassbender is an artist, singer and musician living in Berlin. She calls her drawings ‘blind’ because she never looks down at the page while drawing. Instead, her glance rests on the model whom she – so to speak – slowly captures. The aesthetic ideal is not the object being depicted, but rather […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Vladiswar Nadishana is a Siberian composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music style has a deep connection with ethnic fusion, ethnic jazz and world fusion. He plays on more than 100 instruments and the unique approach of his art is influenced by various world music traditions. He has created some experimental musical instruments: dzuddahord, plastrimbaphon, […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Andre Demers is a 36 years old painter from Montreal, whose paintings are associated with Pop Art and Optical art, but he is inspired by constructivism and surrealism. He has given his work the name of Pop-Op art. Andre Demers has been painting for more than 14 years now. He has completed his […]

Vanya Nikolaeva Deron Cohen was born and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles, with a degree in Fine Arts. Deron has been teaching painting courses, held one man shows in Seattle, and participated in group shows at the San Diego Art Department, Limbo Fine Arts, and […]

Vanya Nikolaeva With eight CDs and a DVD to their name, OMNIA is one of the pioneers of the “PaganFolk” movement in Europe and has harvested international acclaim on many Pagan, Folk, Medieval, Gothic and Fantasy festivals, as well as in many theatres. All of this is entwined and bound by haunting and powerful vocals […]