Raya Sofronieva

Raya Sofronieva is a Bulgarian self-taught photographer and director working exclusively with 35mm film. Her work captures liminal thresholds — misty forests, quiet edges between presence and absence, and the suspended poetry of everyday landscapes.
Shot on a Zenit 11 camera with no digital editing, the images preserve the raw grain, light leaks, and honest imperfections of analog film. Drawing from the atmospheric restraint of Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr, her photographs seek the truth of the observed moment rather than staged perfection.
"Veiled Margin" is her first limited-edition photo book — a quiet meditation on impermanence, solitude, and the spaces in between.