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1. Save as The Save as project started as the news of a renovation in the opera house in Ruse came up. Save as is an instalation diveded into two rooms. The first room is a dressing room as taken from the opera. It containes all of its attributes from the intercom for the actors to the chest board and the social slogans on the walls. The room looks as it is from another decade despite the fact that the parts of the interior had being taken out of use just days ago. In the second room is a photo slide show projection on all four of the walls. The projected pictures present the interior and the atmosphere of the opera. It reveals the hidden place where the actors and dancers rehearse and exposes the character of the work in the background. This project aims to preserve part of the operas backstage interior which holds the spirit of the opera and keeps the secrets of the people working there for the last 40 years.

2. FlashBox This project started from very nature of photography which is to document. An experimental series of photographs which is still growing. My first idea was to stimulate a moment in which a person cannot fake his behavior and explore the different attitudes of people. A person is given a box wrapped as a present which has inside a flashhead syncronised to a camera and the person is photographed when he opens the box. The picture taken catches the light spreading from the box into his/her face. A human being has its inter need to explore him self. An experiment oriented to the true nature of a person and his emotions looking into the reactions and the processes of perception.

3. I LOVE ILLEGAL PARKING This project is aimed against the illegal parking on the streets. Its a statement of outrage and a shout for change. Stickers are stuck on cars parked wrong, on the rear windows of the driver and the passenger next to him. The stickers are actually masks which transform the person into a criminal. They make the person look suspicious by adding an attribute to his face like mustaches, glasses, domino, veil, cigarettes and smoke. A second small sticker is applyed to the car saying " I love illegal parking ".

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-. The '''Regretful Magdalene''' project comprises a series of graphical experiments that range from illustration to guerrilla tactics, graphic and package design. For example, an infographics reflecting about global water shortage is part of this set of experiments, as also is a fake travel agency propaganda booklet advertising the Pacific's Garbage Patch. The subsequent results are then presented in the form of a publication, which reflects on the common aspects that links all these experiments to each other. The materials I used (both on the experiments and their final publication) try to be as environment concerned as possible.
+. Save as
+The Save as project started as the news of a renovation in the opera house in Ruse came up.  Save as is an instalation diveded into two rooms. The first room is a dressing room as taken from the opera. It containes all of its attributes from the intercom for the actors to the chest board and the social slogans on the walls. The room looks as it is from another decade despite the fact that the parts of the interior had being taken out of use just days ago. In the second room is a photo slide show projection on all four of the walls. The projected pictures present the interior and the atmosphere of the opera. It reveals the hidden place where the actors and dancers rehearse and exposes the character of the work in the background. This project aims to preserve part of the operas backstage interior which holds the spirit of the opera and keeps the secrets of the people working there for the last 40 years.
-. '''Paradis Artificiels''' gets its name from the book Baudelaire wrote about drug usage. Working around this concept, I created the artwork for an invented opera. The final result comprises two publications which seek to emulate a collector's edition: one is a deluxe edition of the musical score, while the other seeks to represent the opera's program. Both the publications have distinct yet related illustrated covers, in which I try to explore complex details using only vector graphics and the colour black. These where then printed in olive green cardboard, whilst the book interior was all printed in recycled paper.
+. FlashBox
+This project started from very nature of photography which is to document. An experimental series of photographs which is still growing. My first idea was to stimulate a moment in which a person cannot fake his behavior and explore the different attitudes of people. A person is given a box wrapped as a present which has inside a flashhead syncronised to a camera and the person is photographed when he opens the box. The picture taken catches the light spreading from the box into his/her face.
+A human being has its inter need to explore him self. An experiment oriented to the true nature of a person and his emotions looking into the reactions and the processes of perception.
-. '''Easter''' is a series of nine photos which construct a narrative based on Anton Chekov's “The Day Before Easter”. When put together, these photos convey the sense of a route, of a path that somebody takes across a rural landscape in which we can see, every now and then, connections to Christian symbology, like crosses and monuments to the cavalry. The subdued light that is transversal to all of them, as well as the near absence of a human figure, holds this series together in a pastel color ambiance.
+. I LOVE ILLEGAL PARKING
+This project is aimed against the illegal parking on the streets. Its a statement of outrage and a shout for change. Stickers are stuck on cars parked wrong, on the rear windows of the driver and the passenger next to him.  The stickers are actually masks which transform the person into a criminal. They make the person look suspicious by adding an attribute to his face like mustaches, glasses, domino, veil, cigarettes and smoke. A second small sticker is applyed to the car saying " I love illegal parking ".