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Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the artist Elizabeth Ross Nomad in Venezia Please tell us about your first steps into art. I was a solitary child, who liked to “create” from nowhere things that obviously already existed. I loved the mystery that creation involved. After all those early years I never thought about art or me […]

An Interview with Joanne Cruickshank by Desislava Velichkova The reason I was very impressed with your work is the way you use a woman’s body. It’s absolutely amazing how you succeed in presenting all the beauty of the naked female soul… Can you tell me more about it?  I like to use myself in my […]

“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

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 […]

Joachim Brink is a freelance photographer and writer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Born in 1978, he has been an avid photographer since the age of eleven, when he was given an old Zeiss Ikon medium format camera from the 1950s. His photographs have been published in several magazines, and he is a frequent reviewer of […]

An interview with Laurent Goldstein by Desislava Velichkova Laurent Goldstein: “In my portrait gallery most of the time people are smiling. I am addicted to happiness!” Laurent Goldstein was trained to be an architect, but then he became the designer and the art manager of several high fashion companies in Paris, London and Milan, before […]

An interview with Andrea Benedetti by Ani Vasileva He was born in Italy in 1970 but he doesn’t feel like a citizen of any country. He was very lucky to have adventurous parents and because of them he grew up all over the world. He spent his childhood living in Africa, first Ethiopia, and then […]

The faces speak … Who is Vessy Borisova? A photographer, a film producer, a diver, a mother and a very creative and positive person. Who loves life with all its challanges. What impresses you about the human face? The face is the silent story of a human life. A poem, written from the soul about […]

An interview with Marcos Rivero by Ani Vasileva He was born in 1972 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain). Though his job is not related to photography, he finds time every day to sit with his pictures as a way of escaping of daily problems and relaxing. First he became interested in […]

An interview with Lara Alegre by Ani Vasileva Her name is Lara, she is from Barcelona, and she is in love with photography. It was not a love at first sight… She started taking photos seriously about three years ago, and since then she haven’t stopped. She see poetry in photography. What she love the […]

Who is Andrew Birch? Andrew Birch is just an ordinary man, with an extraordinary hobby… born in England in 1971 and raised in a working class family on the outskirts of London. “I first became seriously interested in digital photography and photo-editing at the start of 2006. Since that time I have followed a steep […]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Michel Seguret What is photography for you? Photography is my passion, friendly to all other activities. Photography is also my life companion. It keeps track of what has been and will never be again, an emotional release too, it’s my way of expressing quite instinctively what surprises or pleases […]

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 […]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the metal craftsman and musician Steve Hubback When and how did you get started in making gongs and sculptures? From 1980 til 1989 I made a living only by music and I could never find the gongs and unusual sounds I was looking for. So, in 1990 I was in Aarhus […]

Stiliyan Stoichev, third-place winner of the Modern Times photography contest, organized by Public Republic in 2008, was born on September 1,1969, in Targovishte, Bulgaria. He has been working as a dental mechanic for a private laboratory for the past 10 years. In 1994 he graduated from the Technical University, Varna, in machine engineering. The same […]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Karlos Garciapons What was your original attraction to photography? The possibility of capturing in person fragments of life. Me being able to translate almost instantly an idea, a concept or a feeling that is synthesized in an image. Why do you like to take pictures of insects and other […]

Lydia Kulekova is the third-place winner of the Modern Times photography contest, organized by Public Republic in 2008. She was born in 1978 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has completed two photography courses (1997 and 2002) and has participated in dozens of art shows and solo exhibits. Some of them are: 2007 Sleeping Things Exhibit, Photo […]

Vanya Nikolaeva’s interview with the dark wave-gothic band In My Rosary In My Rosary were formed in 1992 by the musician Ralf Jesek (voice, instruments, production) and the photographer Dirk Lakomy (lyrics) – originally to be a one-time art project. Based on their fondness for the darker side of the New Wave of the 1980s, […]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Tomer Jacobson When and how did you realize that you would like to make the photography a part of your life? It all started a year ago when I was 36. I was working for the High-Tech industry for 10 years before that as a marketing communication manager and […]

I discovered photography in elementary school when I received my first camera, a Smena 8M as a Christmas gift. From then on followed a lot of over- or underexposed films, darkroom experiments, and lots of outings with the camera along the seaside. I grew up in Varna and the sea has always been an inspiration […]