NAME: Stefan Milev LOCATION: Pattonville, Germany ART: Photography MAIN GENRE: Portrait / Fashion / Beauty

TRAINING: I went to school for photography and art in Germany, than I assisted seven years at the side of major and famous photographers around the globe - I was based in NY and have worked there for three years.

ARTS AFFILIATIONS: Lebook Paris, BFF Germany

LATEST WORKS: Portraits Scott Matthew, Tranoi Homme Paris, DERZEIT Fashion Week Daily Luca Gajdus, PRESS: www.kombinatrotweiss.de RECENT ACTIVITIES: First Place Winner of The Artists Forum International Photography Competition for Bewitched Circovska UPCOMING ACTIVITIES: On-Off A/W11 London Fashion Weeks, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge/SCHN Magazine London, Maayan Keret/FAULT Magazine WEBSITES: www.stefanmilev.com BIO: Impressionist. Expressionist. Surrealist. Stefan Milev photographs sending out rays of sensual poetry! He gives his pictures a subtle aura of mystery and stands with his work between photography and painting. Stefan Milev displays a highly artistic photographic identity towards the relationship between the model and his very personal technique of painting with light. As a result, Milev's picturesque meaning of photographs uncover a unique and multiplex sense for the Zeitgeist in photography. Milev, first and foremost recognized as a pictorialist

continues the tradition of Fine Art photographers from the early 19th Century such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and George Seeley. PLEASE DESCRIBE YOUR ARTISTIC THEMES: Im trying to give pictures creative expression, sense of mystery and beauty. To capture emotion, mystic and soul, of the people who are looking into the camera.

PLEASE DESCRIBE YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS:

Simple and unique WHAT ARE YOUR ARTISTIC GOALS?: Im trying to continue the tradition of Fine Art photographers from the 19th Century.

WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON THE INDUSTRY?: Time is money = quality drops. To many DIY people, who are at the same time photographers, film makers, retouchers, stylists, blogger etc We have a non-creative era where people just consume what ever they see on a huge billboard. Im afraid its is going into the wrong direction.

Where are the successors of the renowned photographers and icons like Irving Penn, Peter Lindbergh, Avedon, Jim Rakete, Helmut Newton, Roversi or Tim Walker? I dont see any.

WHAT ADVICE COULD YOU GIVE TO EMERGING ARTISTS?: We should always try and do things without wasting to much thought about it before.

Stefan Milev, 1981, Bulgaria, is a very productive fashion and fine-art photographer based in Berlin, Germany. He spend seven years assisting major photographers around the globe and worked as a photographer in New York for a period of three years. He wants his images to resemble paintings and includes a sense of mystery and beauty, trying to capture emotion, mystic and soul. He wants the photographs to be simple and unique. He is heavily inspired by the great photographers of the 20th century as Irving Penn, Peter Lindbergh and Helmut Newton. His images have appeared in magazines and publications as Trano Magazine, DERZEIT Magazine and Qvest. The following images come from various different shoots.