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After growing up in Bulgaria, Svetlana Bahchevanova moved to the United States six years ago and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. As a documentary and editorial photographer, Svetlana focuses on social, political changes and conflicts. She has been a photojournalist for 18 years. She participated in an illegal democratic movement in communist Bulgaria and documented the entire process of democratic change there, published in a book “The Street”.
Bahchevanova spent seven years as chief photographer of the first democratic newspaper in Bulgaria “Democracy”. Photojournalistic assignments from this period include: uncovering mass graves from the years 1944-46; labor camps where members of the Bulgarian intellectual elite had been detained in the 1940’s and ‘50s; the assassinations of members of the organized crime and investigating the struggle for human rights of the Bulgarian Muslims (photographs used as trial evidence before the Human Rights Commission, Strasburg).
Her photo essays often focus on human rights and social change such as covering the Muslim and Gypsy minority groups in Bulgaria, the war in Bosnia and Kosovo, the military attempt against the Russian president Boris Yeltzin, the Revolution in Romania, and the events prior to the democratic elections in Yugoslavia.
As a photographer for the Bulgarian Prime Minister and the Bulgarian President, she covered summits with a number of heads of state around the world.
Since the summer of 2001, Svetlana Bahchevanova has been working on a several projects - intimate portrayals of people and everyday life in America which explore issues of American culture, religion and political life.
Currently she is working on project “The Rez - Home of the Lakota Nation” which documents the everyday life in one of the poorest places in United States – the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Her photo essay and news coverage has been published in National Geographic , AP, France Press, Gamma, SIPA, World Picture News. She has been published in magazines and newspapers such as Paris Mach, Figaro, Umanite Dimansh, Capital, Marie Clair, The New York Times, etc.
Currently Svetlana Bahchevanova is a contributing photographer for Aurora Photos.
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Svetlana Bahchevanova
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