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Photo of the month Insta: March 2019

3/31/2019

Two pictures have retained our attention for this selection and for a good reason:

Surrealism is best serving photography when dreams become nightmares. Vassilis Vasileiou's picture (March photo of the month) is an incomplete life in an incomplete body thrown on the theatrical stage of the departed, of the deceased. In other words there is a major contradiction between the playful young girl and the decay of an elderly bedroom.

Gökhan Arer's photograph uses some of the established ingredients of street photography like layering, juxtaposition and perspective to obtain a well balanced candid moment. Add to this the allegory of the solitary individual in a vast metropolis and the result is a powerful story.

Marius Petrescu, Panagiotis Kalkavouras, Michail Moscholios

(Photos: Up: Vassilis Vasileiou, Down: Gökhan Arer)

To build a house

3/25/2019

Children see and experience life in a state of novelty and openness. Their eyes are always fresh, their minds and hearts thrive on connecting with others.

To help their talents and personalities flourish, children need loving relationships with significant adults in a supportive environment.

When difficult circumstances such as poverty and broken families affect physical and emotional security, there is a knock-on effect on all parts of a child’s development. This project celebrates second chances for children to be just that – children. It was shot at the School for Arts and Crafts Rusalya, Bulgaria - funded entirely by donations - whose dedicated team educates artistically gifted children from poverty-stricken families. The school is aiming to provide equal opportunities, individual approach to learning, professional psychological support and, more importantly, a nurturing environment.

Text: Irina Gyurcheva; Photos: Svilen Nachev

Photo of the month on Insta: February 19

3/1/2019

Bogdan’s picture has a particular atmosphere found in the dark kids street portraits of Levitt, Arbus, Mann … The fact that all those photographers were female underlines the extreme sensibility needed to capture such moments.

Tasos’ image (this month's picture) resumes all about photography! Ambiguity as to the authenticity of the scene, surreal, almost Fellinian (due to the gigantic decor), representation of dreams becoming nightmares, antithesis in the childhood facing the affluent society, controversial elements of memories and personal tales, perplexity ... questions raised and staying suspended!

Marius Petrescu, Panayotis Kalkavouras, Michail Moscholios

(Photos: Up: Tasos Biris, Down: Bogdan Comisel)

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The Bulb Collective consists of photographers active in urban (and rural) photography with an expressive shift to include highly aesthetic and poetic images in their assignments.

They share the same vision but not the same perspective which gives the necessary "polyphony" in their extremely ambitious endeavour to cover all the aspects of the Balkan neorealism.

Their visual signatures aspire to create iconic images and to be the best in metamorphosing and interpreting all aspects of life in this highly contradictory and fascinating part of the world.

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Stay tuned to learn in time about the events organised by our team.
SEP 2019: ΦΩS Bucharest
MAY 2019: ΦΩS Sofia
APR 2019: The Greeks
NOV 2018: PhosAthens2
APR 2018: The Romanians
APR 2018: ΦΩS Project2
JAN 2018: BG exhibition
DEC 2017: MSPF 2017
NOV 2017: ΦΩS Project
AUG 2017: VSLO 2017
APR 2017: CY exhibition
DEC 2016: 2nd Photo Contest
NOV 2016: 2nd book launch
JUL 2016: Athens exhibition
JUL 2016: BULB in Kulturama
JUN 2016: Katerini exhibition
JUN 2016: Thess. exhibition
FEB 2016: Bucharest exhibit
JAN 2016: 1st Photo Contest
AUG 2015: BULB at VSLO2015
JUL 2015: CUCAL Exhibition
JUN 2015: BULB 1st Book
FEB 2015: Rural Project
JAN 2015: BULB Open DAY

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Photo of the month Insta: March 2019

To build a house

Text: Irina Gyurcheva; Photos: Svilen Nachev

Photo of the month on Insta: February 19

What is?

βULB goes Sofia

βULB vision

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βalkan Urban League without Borders

Photo of the month Insta: March 2019

To build a house

Text: Irina Gyurcheva; Photos: Svilen Nachev

Photo of the month on Insta: February 19

What is?

​βULB goes Sofia

βULB vision

Upcoming

Articles by

βULB goes Sofia