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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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Petia Petkova’s interview with the photographer Pavel Badzhakov /Pavzo/
Translation by Maria Aladzhova

“I was born in the most beautiful city of Bulgaria – Plovdiv – 31 and a half years ago, in the month of the most horned sign, so of course all of my sentences start with the word “I”… My occupation has been [...]

Maria Aladzhova’s interview with the designer Sasa Kovacevic

This week’s artist is the designer Sasa Kovacevic. Born in Serbia, Sasa says his innovative work is inspired by the Balkan cultures and other nations and traditions. Sasa studies fashion design in Berlin and is working on his latest collection “I’m a good socialist.”
He was a finalist in [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Zlatina Dimitrova’s interview with the photographer Erich Morton
Erich Morton: Photography was just what I thought about increasingly over my life

Why did you get involved with photography? Why not any other art?
 My father was a photography enthusiast and I remember always liking his photos from his trips to India and France. I had a toy camera [...]

An interview with Eric Lafforgue by Desislava Velichkova
Africa’s passion by Eric Lafforgue

Born in 1964, Eric Lafforgue lives in Toulouse, France.
Ever since he was young, he has been fascinated by far away countries and travelling, and spent some time in Africa, unknowingly retracing Monfried and Joseph Kessels footsteps when he was 10 years old in [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the fashion photographer Oleg Igorin

When and how did you “discover” your passion for photography?
I suddenly was going along a shop window and saw a digital camera. I remember it was Olympus. It was 5 years ago. I think my passion for photography began technically at that moment. Esthetically I always loved [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the fashion photographer Antonio Garcia
Antonio Garcia: “The Most Important Thing in Fashion Photography is Passion”

How were you attracted to the world of fashion?
When I was learning photography, I was introduced to many photographers. A lot of disciplines, a lot of different fields: documentary, sports, landscapes, still photography… and fashion. I found [...]

An interview with Maria Jose Rivera by Ani Vasileva

She always has admired the way people expresses their emotions. She doesn’t care how they do it. Everyone has an inner world and any way they choose to express it is fine with her.
She believes the most important thing about taking photos is having a [...]

Galina Dzendova’s interview with Mariana Kalycheva
Translation: Mira Dimova
Mariana Kalycheva’s Paintings – Colourful, Emotional, Precise

I met Mariana while waiting at the ticket-office at the airport in Sofia, where the overload baggage was to be declared. I knew she was fond of art before she told me anything about herself.
Her smile hinted her emotions, passions, [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the composer and musician Andrea Centazzo

Tell us please how your carrier as a musician and a composer has started?
I never had regular music school training when I was young, basically I was mostly drumming and singing with a schoolmate rock band until I was 22. After that I decided to start [...]