Anastas Tarpanov

Anastas Tarpanov

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Joined Oct 2022

About

I was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1980. Although my family has experience with photography, for me it came as a hobby in my late 20s. I started shooting my family, friends, all my journeys and some events. For some time this was fine for me, but around 5 years ago I started to change from the inside and this is also reflected in my photography. I wanted to give meaning to my work by asking questions with my photos. A beautiful or technically perfect image was not so important to me anymore. In 2014 I received the 2nd award in the Sports feature category of World Press Photo. I used to shoot sports and music photography as a way to balance social important projects that I was working on for a long time. Now I'm fully committed to my photography, I create documentary work as part of my IRL career, but I also do artistic, creative and minimalist work that is also a passion for me.

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