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Interview with judge - Georgi Vachev

01.08.2024

- What inspired you to become a professional in the world of beauty, photography and art?
- My love for photography was born more than 40 years ago... I was little and my father gave me a FED camera... a Russian copy of Leica... Even then I was captivated by the magic of photography, the light that we "seal" on the film strip...

- What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your professional journey?
- The biggest challenge is always the people...how to approach, how to make them show their inner self and how to open up to you...because in photography, portraits are the most important thing.

- What do you enjoy most about your job?
- The greatest happiness for me is to make someone look at himself from the side, to like himself, but at the same time to look at himself as an "object", as a being placed in a certain sense and context... Then photography acquires another meaning.

- What advice would you give to young professionals who want to succeed in this field?
- Not to be afraid to make mistakes, not to stop trying, not to stop failing... To be brave and educate yourself, because there is nothing scarier than an illiterate person! He harms not only himself, but also others!

- Tell us a little more about yourself and share with us what you expect from the participants in the Art Poster category?
- For myself, I can only say that despite my achievements in photography, I still do not have the self-confidence of a "good photographer". I constantly think about how and in what way I can become better at what I do... I think that's the only way a person can develop... I expect the participants to show something that at first glance is "nothing", but in the end, looking around, to find a lot of philosophy, a lot of interesting details… I expect them to dare to show something that they think is unseen… I expect to learn something from them…. To steal something from their photographs.