Radoslav Penchev

My interest in photography fired up when I was a teenager. There was an old analogue camera Zeiss Ikon in my parents’ home. At first I looked at it as just an object with a very weird and interesting shape. I gradually got carried away and started experimenting. I changed several analogue cameras, but back then my interest remained at the amateur level. With the advent of digital photography and editing, it gradually took over an important part of my life. My art education and ability to draw facilitates my work as a graphic designer and photographer.
Since I was a child, I have been fascinated by fiction, both in literature, cinema and visual arts. Surrealism has always attracted me with its incredible worlds and images, sometimes scary and misunderstood, but always magnetic. From the old master painters, I adore Pieter Bruegel and Hieronymus Bosch. I also like the incredible Dalí, but my biggest influence comes from the Polish surrealist Zdzisław Beksiński. The books of Frank Herbert, Clifford Simak, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and many others. I find inspiration in movies like Blade Runner, Dune, Star Wars and all the works of David Lynch.
The path I follow to assemble the surreal collages is various and unpredictable. F...

High School of Art and Design

Solo exhibition - Sofia - Gallery "Photosynthesis" 2015.
Participation in the general exhibition "Pieces of Mirror Reality" Computer Generated Design Gallery "Sofia Press" 2022.