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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 as an artist. [...]

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 [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Els Boudewijnse

Els Boudewijnse was born and raised in the Netherlands. Lived in a beautiful rural little village until age twenty-three; these surroundings nurtured her love of nature. She can remember walking around with a small camera at eight years old, taking pictures of the goats, chickens, turkeys and occasional [...]

An interview with Anna Sanfeliu by Desislava Velichkova
Anna Sanfeliu was born in 1977 in Barcelona, Spain. With 3 years she moved to Mexico with her family and stayed 16 years until she finished high school. During that period Anna had her first contact with photography and  took her first analogue course.
“We where few 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 [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Apolonia Castilla

Please tell us more about your path into photography.
I started with photography at the age of 9 when I bought a
compact camera. I had a couple of compact cameras for 20 years and I bought a SLR camera and several Practika filters and developed personal photography goals [...]

An interview with Tiago Ribeiro by Ani Vasileva

His name is Tiago Ribeiro and he is 25 years old. He has a Master in Informatics and he is the co-founder of Seegno. He’s also still very involved with student communities through Lappiz.
A little over a year ago, with the academic life a bit past behind him, [...]

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 my eye.
One can’t forget [...]

Elayne Clift

Photo: flavinsky
Some years ago I read a book about Gypsies. It was called Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca and it changed forever the way I think about the Roma people. It’s amazing how knowing something about a too-easily-stereotyped group can alter your view of its members. Such was the case when [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with Yessenia Quiros

When and how did you decide to become a photographer?
It’s been a long process. About twelve years ago, while on my honeymoon, I was taking pictures with a disposable camera and photographed some crabs and some landscapes. It was like discovering a new world, since then, I’ve been growing and [...]

A short story about the memory of photography
Velina Vateva’s interview with the photographer Iness Rychlik

How does photography extend to the way you see the world?
I have always loved observing things around me, but photography has taught me to be more precise in the way I see everything and I now dedicate a lot of [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the digital artist Ari Hariadi

When and how did you discover photography for yourself?
Ever since I was a kid I love to draw. About 17 years ago, while studying computer management at the university, I found some software programs for graphic design and learned them on my own. During that time I [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with Valentina Giuffrè

When and how did you start taking pictures?
I started taking pictures five years ago during the last match of my city’s soccer team before the end of the championship. There was a great promotional party of Messina’s team and I wanted to remember all my friend’s faces and all the [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Norman Atkinson

When and how did you discover photography for yourself?
I discovered photography when we were on our honeymoon in Spain. All the other people we were with were taking photos of the beaches, swimming pool shots and the landscapes of Spain. When I got home I went out and [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the photographer Claude McCoy

What does photography give you?
The possibility of capturing a moment in time visually, whether it’s a beautiful landscape or flower or a moment with others that I want to remember.

Interview with Elena Peteva by Yassen Vassilev

Elena Peteva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1978. She lives and works in the United States, where she moved in 1995. She studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy (1995-1997), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1999-2004), as well as at the private studios of Odd Nerdrum in [...]