PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Artist Fellow - Akademie Schloss Solitude - 2021 - Present
Part-time lecturer - University of Portsmouth - 2021 - Present
Associate lecturer - University of the Arts London, London College of Communication - 2019 - Present
Еditor - eep magazine - 2019 - Present
Co-founder - Revolv Collective - 2017 - Present
EDUCATION
MA Photography - University of Portsmouth - Distinction - 2016 - 2017
BA (Hons) Photography - University of Portsmouth - First Class Degree - 2013 - 2016
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2022
Shelters of silenced memory, Sofia City Art Gallery - Sofia, Bulgaria
2021
History is in the Present, Zahariev-Singer Foundation - Malak Izvor, Bulgaria
Intimacy & Spectacle in the Epoch of Social Media part of Sofia Art Projects - Largo underpass, Independence Square, Sofia, Bulgaria
2020
History in Between - History Museum of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
New Begginings - MERTZ, Berlin, Germany
Art Start 2020 - Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
F O R M - Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK
2019
Photography & Sculpture - AMP Studios, South Bermondsey Art Trail, London, UK
Statement of Being - Deptford does Art, London, UK
Curating cultures of Remembrance - District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Balkan Mine solo exhibition - EEP Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Representation on the Line II: (Un)framing our Identities - RPS 100 Heroines, Chelsea, London, UK
Intro:spective - Seen Fifteen Gallery, Peckham, London, UK
Invisible material: Process, performance and screenings - London College of Communication, London, UK
2018
Brighton Photo Fringe - Collective's Hubs, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK
Post memory - Lovech Fine Art gallery, Lovech, Bulgaria
2017
Transition Exhibition - NIGHT Festival Plovdiv 2017 - PLOVEDIV Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Archives as Medium - Four Corners Gallery, London, UK
Fragments - Sticks Gallery, Gosport, UK
In Motion by Prototype & Studio Komplekt - Societe General Express Bank, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ginnel Foto Fest - Ipswich, UK
2016
Uncertain States / Emergence - Photomonth London 2016 - Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK
Pingyao International Photography Festival - Pingyao, China
Brighton Photo Fringe - Brighton, UK
Aspex Platform Graduate Award 2016 Exhibition - Portsmouth, UK
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES
2021
Artist talk, BA (Photography), Arts University Bournemouth, 15 March.
10th World Congress of Central and Eastern European Studies in Montréal, Canada, 10-13 August.
(Counter-)Archive: Memorial Practices of the Soviet Underground, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, Conference, 13-16 October.
2020
Artist talk, BA (Hons) Photography, University of Portsmouth, Online, November 9th.
How to forget?, part of How to forget your past fast exhibition of Martin Atanasov, CO-OP Sofia, Bulgaria, Online workshop, October 25th.
Imagining the archive, Three Men Make a Tiger, LCC BA Photography, Digital workshop, June 18th.
Articulating your practice, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Digital workshop, May 30th.
Truth, Reality and Imagination Interpretations from Eastern and Central Europe conference at UCL, London, UK, February 19th.
A living memorial, pannel discussion part of Forms of Ground mini-symposium, with Lina Ivanova, Ibby Azab, Lucas Gabellini-Fava, chaired by Vivianne Gamble, February 15th, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, February 15th.
Alumni symposium, BA Photography, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, February 5th,.
What’s a Can of Worms Between Mates? a conversation with Victoria Louise Doyle, Alexander Mourant & Harry Gammer-Flitcroft, Art Lacuna, London, February 1st.
2019
You are f*cking ugly, zine workshop, UAL London College of Communication, London, 26th of November.
Apolitical/Politial, photography workshop, UAL London College of Communication, London, November 14th.
Transition workshop with Bayryam Bayryamali in collaboration Sofia Platform, part ofa public programme celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of communism, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 10th.
Identity, Panel discussion with Rashida Mangera and Maryam Wahid, Espacio Gallery, London, October 1st.
We Make the Yolk Photography, Reading and writing workshop, Deptford Does Art, London September 1.
Trauma & ritual, Reading group, EEP Berlin, Berlin, July 12.
Remembering whilst forgetting, Artist talk, EEP Berlin, Berlin, July 13.
Why should we remember with Julian Chehirian, Summer School Belene: Democracy & Memory, Sofia Platform, Belene, Bulgaria, July 2-5.
Homeland workshop / Revolv Collective, Take Courage Gallery, London, June 22.
Intro:spective artist crit, Discussion moderator, Seen Fifteen, London, April 7.
Intro:spective panel discussion with Tom Lovelace, Jonny Briggs & Alexandra Davenport, Discussion moderator, Seen Fifteen, London, April 6.
Zine it up workshop, School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Communication, London, March 5.
On failure & completion workshop, BLUNT, ACAVA studios, January 15.
2018
Artist talk, BA Photography, University of Brighton, December 10.
PIP Collaborative zine workshop, London College of Communication, The Art Academy, December 5.
Roots or Routes? workshop, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton Photo Fringe, October 27.
4UZHBINA: Artist Talk, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton Photo Fringe, October 20.
Photography as a collaborative action workshop, School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Photography graduates, University of Portsmouth, Menier Gallery, London, July 6.
Portfolio reviews, School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Photography graduates, University of Portsmouth, Menier Gallery, London, July 5.
First Monday, Brighton Photo Fringe, Artist Talk, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, May 14.
Post Memory, session chair and panellist supported by Sofia Platform & Lovech City Council, Fine Art Gallery Lovech, Lovech, Bulgaria, March 13.
2016 - 2017
Alumni Symposium, School of Art and Design, Undergraduate and Postgraduate, University of Portsmouth, October 11.
Zine workshop, organiser and lead artist, Revolv Collective: Archives as Medium,Four Corners Film, London, September 8.
Portfolio reviews, School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Photography, University of Portsmouth, April 2, 2017.
Portfolio reviews, School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Photography, University of Portsmouth, February 2, 2017.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Print media
2021 - Pleasure & Pressure by Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
2020 - Panacea Anthology, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2019 - EEP issue 1, Berlin, Germany
2018 - Photo archives and found photography in post-communist Bulgaria: traumatic memory and imagination, Lilyana Karadjova, Images in the Post-truth era conference, Birkbeck College University of London
Becoming The Other by Æther, Stuttgart, Germany
Niglo zine issue 2, Strasbourg, France
Incandescent zine issue 13, Oregon, USA
2017 - ФotoArt Magazine, Sofia, Bulgaria
Radio / Television / Podcast
2021 - Kitchen Conversation Podcast
2020 - Bulgarian National Television “Kultura.BG”
Eurocom: Culture2021 - Pleasure & Pressure by Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
2020 - Panacea Anthology, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2019 - EEP issue 1, Berlin, Germany
2018 - Photo archives and found photography in post-communist Bulgaria: traumatic memory and imagination, Lilyana Karadjova, Images in the Post-truth era conference, Birkbeck College University of London
Becoming The Other by Æther, Stuttgart, Germany
Niglo zine issue 2, Strasbourg, France
Incandescent zine issue 13, Oregon, USA
2017 - ФotoArt Magazine, Sofia, Bulgaria
Radio / Television / Podcast
2021 - Kitchen Conversation Podcast
2020 - Bulgarian National Television “Kultura.BG”
2018 - Bulgarian National Radio ‘‘Horizont’’
2017 - Bulgarian National Televison ''The Day Starts with Culture''
Bulgarian National Radio ‘’Hristo Botev’’
2016 - That’s Solent TV
Website publications
America for Bulgaria
Balkan Stories
Kultura.bg
Wallpaper*
Sofia Press
Semi zine
Photoworks SHOWCASE
NIGHT 2017
Prototype SGEB
Capital Newspaper
Lovech News Glas
Calvert Journal
Photograd Spotlight Photobook
CURATION
2019
120 Albert Palace Mansions, London, UK
Homeland, Take Courage Gallery, London, UK
Intro:spective, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK
2018
London Independent Photography 30th annual exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London, UK
One Year, Safehouse 1, London, UK
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