born 1978 in Sofia/Bulgaria | 1980 moves to Riga/Latvia | 1992 moves to Cologne/Germany | 1999 - 2002 studies piano by prof. Mark Zolotarev in Cologne | 2003 - 2005 studies musicology at the Friedrich-Willhelms-university in Bonn | 2005 - 2008 studies musicology at Humboldt-university in Berlin | since 2008 studies photography at the international academy of photography [new school for photography] in Berlin | 2009 wins the 3. prize of journalist-photographer-competition of Südtirol Marketing's sponsor prize for young photographers, published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung august 2009 | 2010 participates in the project "Watching You, Watching Me", an international exchangeproject of ethiopian and german students of photography. Resulted work was exhibited at the forum of the new school for photography and the Addis Abeba International Photography Festival 2010 | currenly working on own projects "Home - in remembrance of a childhood" & "Zweisam" |