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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, [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

An interview by Mira Dimova with the photographer Ana Shefchek

Ana Shefchek is a 16-year-old student from Croatia. She lives with her big family and two pets in Oroslavje, a small town near the capital Zagreb. After finishing school she hopes to study acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts.
She’s always had a camera [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

A cobra

An interview with Desislava Slavova by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Foto: Dessislava Slavova
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
I like the moments when a person materializes a reality out of their dreams. I admire people who can put love, time, patience and faith into their dreams and thus create an alternate world. [...]

Yana Radilova’s interview with the photographer Art McLeod

My name is Art McLeod. I have been a nature photographer for many years. I grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada. My parents are wildlife photographers and have been ever since I was a child. We spent a lot of time in the wilderness and that had a [...]

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

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 [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the fashion photographer Christian Leitner

How has photography become an important part of your life?
A benefit of working at a university is that you can travel a lot to places you would normally not visit as a tourist, so I started to take pictures wherever I went. But the real life changing [...]

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 [...]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the fashion photographer James Lee

Why did you decide to become a fashion photographer?
I got bored of taking pictures of my friends and family and wanted to work with models and make my pictures look like they were from a fashion magazine and generally be more creative. I guess it’s [...]