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Yuliy Vasilev - Photographer

Urban and culinary photographer
Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Yuliy is an urban and culinary photographer, born in 1985 in Bulgaria. Art became his life and love.

Since a young age, he has been very keen on travelling and discovering new places and cultures, which led him to study in the field of hospitality. He is the holder of a Master's degree in Business Management diploma. On a trip to London at the beginning of 2012, he discovered that photography was his real passion. He has been devoted to urban and street photography ever since. Ever since, Yuliy h

as shot in over 40 countries across four continents. At first he never really intended to pursue a career in photography; instead, he continued with his career in the hospitality industry. This gave him the ability and time to develop his own artistic style. His work in the culinary industry inevitably led him to experiment in the field of culinary photography, where he quickly established his name, and his projects are well known all over the world. He is currently one of the most prominent creative culinary photographers, with a distinctive style and technique. Yuliy’s talent for spotting the details and seeing the world from a different perspective made his pictures stand out very quickly. Yuliy has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and has been published in many print and digital editions, including Forbes. His photographs have won more than 470 awards on six continents, most notably:

Advertising Photographer of the Year – IPA International Photo Awards 2023

Photographer of the Year – One Eyeland Photography Awards 2022

Fujifilm Award for Innovation Winner - Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2022

Food & Beverage Category Winner - Siena Creative Photo Awards 2022

Advertising Discovery of the Year - PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2022

Advertising Category Winner – BIFA Budapest International Foto Awards 2022

Advertising Category Winner – TIFA Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023

Advertising & Commercial Photographer of the Year - The Society of Photographers 2024

Overall Winner – One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Street Photographers 2022

Overall Winner - One Eyeland World's Top 10 Black & White Photographers 2023

Winner – 14th Annual The Taste Awards 2023

Food & Drink Category Winner, reFocus Awards One Shot Contest 2022

Still Life Category Winner, 1839 Awards Color Contest 2024

Still Life Category Winner - Chromatic Photography Awards 2023

Winner, HIPA Instagram Competition November 2024

Winner, HIPA Instagram Competition June 2024

Winner, 13th FIAP World Cup for Clubs 2018

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07/09/2026

"Moai"

Cabinet of Curiosities

03/09/2026

"Prickly Cake"

Cabinet of Curiosities

01/09/2026

Maker: Sida
Model: Extra
Year: 1938
Country: Germany
Type: 828 Film Miniature Camera (25x25mm)
Lens: Sida-Optik Meniscus 35mm/f8

Sida Gesellschaft für photographische Apparate mbH was a German camera maker in the 1930s, which also produced its cameras in several other European countries. The company was founded in 1934 by Fritz Kaftanski in Berlin, but because of anti-Jewish laws in Germany at that time, the company was for official purposes owned by his associate Karl Gumpel. The company was sold in 1935.

The cast-metal-bodied viewfinder camera Sida was made in 1936. It is a simple camera, making 25x25mm images on unperforated, paper-backed 35mm roll film, also known as 828 film. Sida Extra was produced in 1938. It is a small viewfinder camera. It is constructed from brown Bakelite. It is similar to the standard Sida, but it has the name "Extra" moulded into the body above the lens. It used the same proprietary Sida spools and film. The camera has a simple 'T' and 'M' shutter and an f/8 meniscus lens. The shutter release is a metal tab underneath the camera body. The camera has a little viewfinder on top of its body without any optics in it. The camera has a red window for film advance on the back. The film is advanced by a shiny metallic k**b on top of the camera. Later there was another metal-bodied camera, sold as the Sida Standard. After the war Kaftanski revived the camera as the Sidax, produced in Paris.

This particular example is very well preserved, in excellent cosmetic condition and also fully operational. It is one of my strangest cameras, and also it is the smallest of them all, measuring just 7x5.5x4.2cm.

26/08/2026

"Peekaboo"
2014
Victoria, Gozo, Malta

18/08/2026

"Addicted"

Cabinet of Curiosities

13/08/2026

Great news from down under! I am the International Commercial Photographer of the Year for the second year in a row at the Australian Photographic Prize 😍

07/08/2026

"Touch"
2023
Washington, USA

04/08/2026

"Stop! You Can!"

02/08/2026

Maker: Vredeborch (for Foto-Quelle)
Model: Optomax Synchrona (Vredeborch Vrede-Box Synchrona)
Year: 1960
Country: West Germany
Type: 120 Film Box Camera (6x9cm)
Lens: Meniscus 90mm/f13

Vredeborch was a camera maker based in Nordenham, a town on the German North Sea coast. The name of the company comes from the Vredeborch castle (Friedeburg in standard German) established at the beginning of the city's history, circa 1407. The company Vredeborch GmbH was founded in 1945. Several of its cameras were sold under names given by other distributors. It stopped camera-making in 1970. Foto-Quelle of Nuremberg, Germany, was a large retailer of cameras and photographic equipment. It sold a variety of film cameras and other optical instruments produced by other manufacturers under the R***e, R***eflex and R***enon brands. Those manufacturers included, most notably, the Japanese companies Chinon and Cosina, as well as the USSR state-owned KMZ factory. There are a few cameras produced by different manufacturers for Foto-Quelle under the Optomax brand as well.

The Vrede-Box Syncrona is a medium format box camera made by Vredeborch, based on the earlier model Vrede-Box but with flash synchronization. The camera was introduced in 1953. The Optomax Syncrona is actually a rebranded Vrede-Box Syncrona, produced for Foto-Quelle. The Optomax Syncrona was produced in 1960 and is the very last camera from the Vrede-Box line. It is equipped with a rubber strap on top of the body, which is prone to cracking. The camera has the standard controls for a box of this era. The shutter can be operated in Instant (I) or Timed (T) mode. The camera also provides a connection for a cable release. Another tab on the side allows a yellow filter to be pulled into place. The yellow filter is used to enhance skies on B/W film. Flash contacts via a hot shoe are provided. Film is advanced using a turn-key, and the frame number is viewed through a red window on the back. The red window does not have a cover. It has two brilliant viewfinders for both landscape and portrait mode. There are two tripod mounts allowing stabilization in portrait or landscape orientation. The camera was produced in either black or gray color.

This particular example is in very good shape; even the rubber carrying strap is still intact, and the camera is still fully working. The Optomax Syncrona is much more uncommon than the regular Vrede-Box Syncrona. I particularly like its gray color.

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