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WORLD AFFILIATE WORLD AFFILIATE
A. Savov invited Mr. Valeri Kyorlenski
to the stage. He was the executive
director of the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation
for many years when the city of
Plovdiv applied for and won the title of
European Capital of Culture
Mr. Savov shared with the guests of the event about the path taken
with the series of books “Bulgarian Photography Selected” 1, 2 and 3,
talked about the emotions surrounding the book publishing activities
of the APB in recent years and did not hide his hope to produce
another edition, “BP Selected 4”, in the future
Mr. Kyorlenski made another donation
to the APB archive; a book with
photographs of cultural and artistic
World Affiliate pioneer photographers who initiated World Affiliate
figures. Mr. Kyorlenski is the successor
of Georgi Stoyanov Georgiev, one of the
and popularized the art of photography
in Bulgaria
All the laureates with their distinction and honoured guests in a group photo
Mr. Korlenski received a gift from the APB
too. It is the book “Bulgarian Photography
SELECTED”, on the second cover of which
is printed the oldest dated photograph
(1916) in the APB archive, “Flight Pilot
Simeon Petrov” by Georgi St. Georgiev
Finally, a group of Plovdiv photographers and fans of photo art also took pictures in front of the wall
of the platinum laureate Minko Mihaylov and of course with him as their teacher, mentor and friend
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