INSPIRATION PHOTO CONFERENCE

First International Photographic Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria

You will meet some of the most inspirational photographers from Bulgaria and the world.

INSPIRATION PHOTO CONFERENCE will inspire You to widen Your horizons and to reach the next level in Your photographic endeavors.
You will meet 6 interesting and world know authors in diverse genres of photography. 

INSPIRATION PHOTO CONFERENCE is planned as the biggest international photographic event in Bulgaria where You might meet many interesting people sharing the passion for photography.

INSPIRATION PHOTO CONFERENCE is an initiative of the biggest Bulgarian photographic club – Club Photo World.

What will You learn?

  • How to monetize Your creativity
  • How to masterfully tell a story with the means of photography
  • How to change people’s life through photography
  • How to find Your personal style and realize Your potential
  • …and much more

Exceptional Lecturers

Each of our lecturers is extremely successful in his field.

Interesting Subjects

You will learn a lot of new things and get the dose of inspiration You need at the beginning of the new year.

New Friends

You will meet a lot of people sharing the passion for photography.

Free Materials

You will get free materials from our partners and lecturers.

Coffee breaks

Exclusive coffee breaks included in the price.

Get Your ticket on a special price till December 21st

PARTNERS

Canon Bulgaria

MEDIA PARTNERS

Vesti.bg

Вдъхновените

Фото кафе

Годишни Фотографски Награди

SCHEDULE

January 12th, Saturday: CONFERENCE
January 13th, Sunday: Masterclass

LECTURERS

Carsten Peter is an award winning German photographer, who is specialized in going into extremes of nature. His specialty are erupting volcanoes, difficult caves or chasing tornadoes, all coverages for National Geographic. He loves outdoor sports and employs climbing, diving flying for his explorations with the camera. Next to an EMMY award he received two World Press Photo awards and what means most to him: the National Geographic photographer’s photographer award, an election within his own peer group.

A few words from Carsten:

“I like to push limits and I am fascinated especially by new discoveries or new visions of nature. I love to involve innovative technologies to surprise and uncover the unknown. In the end I hope to be an ambassador for the uniqueness and vulnerability of nature and hope it results in protection. Unfortunately this is not always the case.”

For the Inspiration Photo Conference he will take us on a powerful journey in an “Extreme Planet”, joining together three breathtaking stories:

  • Part 1 – Introduction about the climb into an active volcano. It is an adventurous descend to the shores of the biggest lava lake in the world in Nyiragongo volcano in Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Part 2 – The spectacular exploration of the cave Hang Son Doong in Vietnam with award winning photographs. It is supposedly the biggest gallery in the world and has sinkholes with even forests inside the cave.
  • Part 3 – Tornado chasing in the USA. After three years intensive chasing our team became finally very successful in getting probes into a tornado. We measured a world record in barometric pressure drop
Associated Nostalgia
Kitchen Stories
Eugenia Maksomova

EUGENIA MAXIMOVA

Finding Inspiration in the Ordinary

 

https://www.emaxphotography.com/

Eugenia Maximova is a Bulgarian-Austrian photographer based in Vienna. She graduated from The University of Vienna, reading journalism and communication science. Photography came into her life unexpectedly but it quickly became her favoured means of communication; a new outlet of creative expression, for how she felt about both herself and the world around her. Eugenia’s journalistic background influences many of her projects. The goal of her images is to bring to light the lives of others and to communicate socio- political models and tendencies and examine their consequences for society and culture.

Currently Eugenia works as a freelance Photographer. Her clients include: GEO, National Geographic, Die Zeit, Moscow News, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Corriere della Sera and many more.

 

For the INSPIRATION PHOTO CONFERENCE she will show us how to find inspiration in the ordinary things surrounding us on a daily basis.

 

Eugenia Maksomova

EUGENIA MAXIMOVA

Finding Inspiration in the Ordinary

 

https://www.emaxphotography.com/

Eugenia Maximova is a Bulgarian-Austrian photographer based in Vienna. She graduated from The University of Vienna, reading journalism and communication science. Photography came into her life unexpectedly but it quickly became her favoured means of communication; a new outlet of creative expression, for how she felt about both herself and the world around her. Eugenia’s journalistic background influences many of her projects. The goal of her images is to bring to light the lives of others and to communicate socio- political models and tendencies and examine their consequences for society and culture.

Currently Eugenia works as a freelance Photographer. Her clients include: GEO, National Geographic, Die Zeit, Moscow News, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Corriere della Sera and many more.

 

For the INSPIRATION PHOTO CONFERENCE she will show us how to find inspiration in the ordinary things surrounding us on a daily basis.

Associated Nostalgia
Kitchen Stories
Светлана Бахчеванова - PhotoEvidence

Svetlana Bachevanova

PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN EVIDENCE

Can an Image Change the Course of History?

http://www.fotoevidence.com/

Svetlana Bachevanova is a long time photojournalist and the publisher at FotoEvidence, a publishing house and activist organization that supports documentary photography focused on human rights and social justice.
Svetlana became a photojournalist during the transition from dictatorship to democracy in her native Bulgaria. Passionate about social justice she joined the first democratic newspaper “Democrazia,” documenting the end of a long lasting Communist regime.
In 2001, Svetlana moved to New York where she and her partner David Stuart founded FotoEvidence in the tradition of using photography to draw attention to injustice, oppression and assaults on human dignity wherever they may occur.  FotoEvidence is now internationally recognized as a premier publisher of documentary photography and an active partner with human rights organizations.
For eight years, the FotoEvidence Book Award recognized one photographer whose work demonstrates courage and commitment in the pursuit of social justice and, in 2017, FotoEvidence partnered with World Press Photo.  The book award was renamed the FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo. The selected project is published by FotoEvidence as part of a series of photo books dedicated to the work of photographers, whose commitment and courage deliver painful truths, creating awareness and intolerance towards violations of human dignity.

MANU BRABO

Manu Brabo (1981) is a Spanish freelance photojournalist based in Northern Spain whose work is mainly focused on social conflicts around the world. Since 2007 his camera has been shooting in countries and conflicts as Kosovo, Palestine, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Salvador or Ivory Coast among many others.

During the last decade he has been working for different media and news agencies as The Associated Press, Wall Street journal, Al Jazeera, El País, etc as well as NGOs like MSF. Among more than a dozen awards his work has been awarded with the Pulitzer Prize in 2013, POY in several occasions or the U.K. Press Awards in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, under assignment of National Geographic Spain, he created the exhibition “A Random Day”, a photographic portrait of the consequences of the Arab Spring, still touring nowadays.

In 2014 he, among other awarded photojournalist, created the Photojournalist Cooperative MeMo, based in Torino, Italy. During the Inspiration Photo Conference he will talk about the challenges before a freelance war photographer. A story of how one who wants to display the injustices of this world, might do it despite all difficulties.

MANU BRABO

Manu Brabo (1981) is a Spanish freelance photojournalist based in Northern Spain whose work is mainly focused on social conflicts around the world. Since 2007 his camera has been shooting in countries and conflicts as Kosovo, Palestine, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Salvador or Ivory Coast among many others.

During the last decade he has been working for different media and news agencies as The Associated Press, Wall Street journal, Al Jazeera, El País, etc as well as NGOs like MSF. Among more than a dozen awards his work has been awarded with the Pulitzer Prize in 2013, POY in several occasions or the U.K. Press Awards in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, under assignment of National Geographic Spain, he created the exhibition “A Random Day”, a photographic portrait of the consequences of the Arab Spring, still touring nowadays.

In 2014 he, among other awarded photojournalist, created the Photojournalist Cooperative MeMo, based in Torino, Italy. During the Inspiration Photo Conference he will talk about the challenges before a freelance war photographer. A story of how one who wants to display the injustices of this world, might do it despite all difficulties.

Crafting a cinematic narrative of intimacy

My name’s Rafał, and I’m passionate about storytelling

Once upon a time, a famous traveler called love the greatest adventure. In my many years, I stopped by in countless foreign countries across Europe, the Middle East and North America. I visited many places. Wherever I went, I met incredible people, and the stunning observation was that, despite our evident differences, we all share one specific trait. Everyone – regardless of their origin – falls in love.

One day, as the plane of my life finally touched the ground and I gave up my flight attendant career, my friends invited me to their wedding. They asked me to take pictures of the ceremony.

That was the beginning. I understood my destination was still ahead of me. I felt pure and incredibly privileged to be able to capture the rare moment in which two become one. The moment of confession of eternal love.

Oleg Oprisco is a brilliantly talented photographer from Lviv, Ukraine, who creates stunning surreal images of elegant women in fairy-tale or dream-like settings. There’s one significant difference, however, that sets him apart from other artists who create similar work – Oprisco shoots using old-school film photography.

We invite You to a journey to the infinity of imagination where Oleg will share how to gain from Your creativity no matter at what point of the world You live.

OLEG OPRISCO

Oleg Oprisco is a brilliantly talented photographer from Lviv, Ukraine, who creates stunning surreal images of elegant women in fairy-tale or dream-like settings. There’s one significant difference, however, that sets him apart from other artists who create similar work – Oprisco shoots using old-school film photography.

We invite You to a journey to the infinity of imagination where Oleg will share how to gain from Your creativity no matter at what point of the world You live.

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+ 359 8888 122 84

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