EDUCATION
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Master in Fine Art, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway
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Bachelor in Photography, National Academy for Theater and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
MEMBER
FFF, Forbundet Frie Fotografer (Association for Fine Art Photographers in Norway)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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VISAGES – IMAGES, “International Meetings of Photography” in Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture, 2019
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Bergeners, Fotografiens Hus, Oslo, Norway
Collodion Chemigrams, Gallery SLAKT, Bergen, Norway
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“13+1”, ambrotype portraits 4X5, Gallery Rubber - Sofia, Bulgaria
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“Lensless Mind”, pinhole photographs, Gallery of Spish Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia
“Lensless Mind”, pinhole photographs, University of Presov, Slovakia
“Lensless Mind”, pinhole photographs, Scientific Library in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
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“Lensless Mind”, pinhole photographs, Month of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia
“Lensless Mind”, pinhole photographs, International Meeting of Photography Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Pinhole Photography, Water Tower in Sofia, Bulgaria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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CALL ME USHA - Retrospective exhibition of Stanka Tsonkova - Usha /collaboration/, Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
The International Biennale "The Art of the Miniature" /collaboration with Stanka Tsonkova - Usha/, Art Gallery - Ruse, Bulgaria
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"Life as an Experiment, Photography as Life", Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
SNAP - FESTIVAL OF ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, "Photosynthesis", "CUBO - Ribarski", Varna, Bulgaria
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Direction North, Sofia Arsenal - Museum for Contemporary Art, Sofia Bulgaria
Høstutstillingen 132 (National Art Exhibition), Oslo, Norway
Collaboration exhibition with Kristian 'Gaahl' Espedal, -Gastir-, Galleri Fjalar, Bergen, Norway
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25 photographic books, Institute Cervantes, Sofia, Bulgaria
"Tid" - CYAN studio 20 years, Oslo, Norway
Book of Optics, Chapter One, Gallery OneTwo, Ootacamund (Ooty), India
Inferno Metal Festival, Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
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HEX, KHiB - MA Degree Show in Fine Art, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
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FIELDWORK, Gallery Rom8, Bergen, Norway
Photography day 2015, Preus museum, Horten, Norway - Honorable Winner
"Fieldwork Bodø", Nordland Kultursenter, Bodø, Norway
"Passenger", Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway
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“Lensless Mind” and "Русе през камера обскура", pinhole photographs, Ruse Art Gallery, Bulgaria
“Women's Pinhole Photography”, Gallery Gawra in Raciborz, Poland
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V Polish Festival of Pinhole Photography - OFFO 2013
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“20 photographers-20 years National Academy for Theater and Film Arts in Sofia”, International Meeting of Photography
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Exhibition of photographic albums, International Meeting of Photography Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Women in photography “Photography and imagination”, International meetings of photography, Plovdiv
“Me, Monarch” - Exhibition of Self-portraits taken through a Pinhole camera, Goa, India
Collaboration exhibition of photograms, “Cognitive Dissonance”, Industrial 11 Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
“Photographic Images”, National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
“Canon Bulgaria - Picture of the year 2011”, National Art Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria
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Pinhole Exhibition, “Lux in Tenebris”, photo-house Ralica, Sofia, Bulgaria
Goa International Pinhole Photography Contest - Honourable Mention Winner
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III Polish Festival of Pinhole Photography - OFFO 2009
Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2009 - Honourable Winners
“Black & White Photography” in The Center for Fine Art, Fort Collins, CO - First place
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“Rats of the Capital”, “Things No3”, Gallery Debut Sofia, Bulgaria
Pinhole Show, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition “We Are All Photographers Now!”, Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS
Stoff Magazine #24, April 2018
SEITIES JURNAL {THEME:PORTRAIT} summer 2017
Darkadya Issue 3, 2017
Shots Magazine No 135, Spring 2017
Lens Culture in Editor's Picks, Autumn 2014
Time in a can solarography project, catalogue 2013
Shots Magazine No 113, Autumn 2011
BLOOD BECOMES WATER, September 2010
Lens Culture Exposure Awards, catalogue 2009
File Magazine January 2009
Light Leaks Issue 6, 7 and 14
JPG Magazine Issue 9 and Issue 11
A5 Magazine Issue 5; F-Stop Magazine; Blur Magazine Issue 10 and Issue 1
GRANTS
International art and cultural exchange - Quick response 2019 - Bergen kommune
Project Support spring 2018 - Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfon
Project Support - Visual Arts 2018 - Arts Council Norway
Miscellaneous grant for recently graduated artists 2017 - Arts Council Norway
Program Mobility II, travel grant 2011 - National Culture Fund of Bulgaria
TEACHING
January 2020 Alternative photographic techniques, National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
June 2014 Pinhole workshop, Ruse Art Gallery part of a festival of urban culture "I, The City", Ruse, Bulgaria