IVAYLO STOYANOV Ivaylo Stoyanov was born in 1976 in Karlovo, Bulgaria. He lives and works in Sofia. In 2007 he graduated in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Since 2010 he is a teacher and founder of the Conceptual Photography Department at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. Co-founder of the Kunstlicht Group for Photography, Wiesbaden – Germany, Space for Contemporary Photography – Photoconcept and Platform for Contemporary Photography – Bulgarianphotographynow. He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions with very high collector interest. His works have been published by leading photography museums such as Photonews and Artflash etc. In 2013 he participates in a photography festival – Sofia Photo Fest. In 2018 he participates in two exhibitions: Spring Festival of Contemporary Art in the city of Blagoevgrad and ART at EP – Exhibition of Contemporary Bulgarian Art in the European Parliament, Brussels. His photographs are owned by the collections of the National Art Gallery in Sofia, the Sofia City Art Gallery, the Erhard Witzel Gallery, Wiesbaden-Germany, the QuadrART – Museum of Contemporary Art, Dornbirn-Austria, Imago Mundi Collection - Benetton and private collections.